On minding and being minded : experiencing Bion and beckett / by Ian Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Cost effectiveness--Research.

Psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy--Decision-making.

Psychotherapy--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On Minding and Being Minded explores links between depictions of lived experience written by Samuel Beckett and the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy pioneered in the writings of W.R. Bion. These robust literary and clinical intersections are made explicit within the demanding culture of twenty-first century psychotherapy as patient demand for time-limited, result-driven therapeutic outcomes conflicts sharply with the contours of intensive, long-term psychotherapy. Bion and Beckett present elements of familiarity to the practicing psychoanalyst which emerge tantalizingly, out of explicit reach, yet become knowable through interpersonal engagement. These stutterings and intimations are thick with meaning, suggestively presented in passing. They hint at how it is for the patient, provoking excitations of thinking; and, like the mental constructions of us all, their articulation conceals deep artistry. On Minding and Being Minded provides a therapeutic link bridging the single session with multiple session psychotherapy focused upon the dynamic engagement of patient and therapist.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER ONE Introducing the present formulation; CHAPTER TWO Beginning How It Is: an energetic reading; CHAPTER THREE How It Is again; CHAPTER FOUR Learning how it is from experience; CHAPTER FIVE How it is across time-the road from Connolly's Store; CHAPTER SIX The present formulation claimed by the bog; CHAPTER SEVEN The present formulation as bricolage; CHAPTER EIGHT Psychotherapy and the present formulation; CHAPTER NINE The present formulation: plod along as one; CHAPTER TEN A second opinion; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-91700-7

0-429-90277-8

0-367-10238-2

0-429-47800-3

1-78241-347-2

9780429478000

OCLC:

905985574