Systems and psychoanalysis : contemporary integrations in family therapy / edited by Carmel Flaskas and David Pocock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flaskas, Carmel.

Pocock, David (David Alan)

Series:

Systemic thinking and practice series.

Systemic thinking and practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Systemic therapy (Family therapy).

Psychotherapist and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured traditions back into dialogue, on new terms. The editors do partisans of both fields a great service in this effort, since their long-standing mutual isolation has kept each dismissive of the other, and ignorant of developments in the other's field - to their mutual detriment. The book tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. While the strategies are many and varied, the collection as a whole reflects some of the deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best: holding complexity, tolerating contradiction, seeking common ground, seeing past limiting and ideologically driven binaries, thinking and working outside the box, and honouring history and tradition, even while digging it up.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE SYSTEM; CHAPTER ONE: Narrative, meaning-making, and the unconscious; CHAPTER TWO: Working with unconscious processes: psychoanalysis and systemic family therapy; CHAPTER THREE: Is there another word for it? Countertransference in family therapy; CHAPTER FOUR: Interpreting dreams in psychotherapy with couples: moving between the upper and lower worlds; PART II: EMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER FIVE: Anger and boredom: unpleasant emotions in systemic therapyCHAPTER SIX: Working with emotional systems: four new maps; CHAPTER SEVEN: Thinking through togetherness: developmental metaphors and systemic thinking; CHAPTER EIGHT: Love and hate and the oedipal myth: the perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic; PART III: DIALOGUE AND OTHERNESS; CHAPTER NINE: Reflecting processes and reflective functioning: shared concerns and challenges in systemic and psychoanalytic therapeutic practice; CHAPTER TEN: In the thick of culture: systemic and psychoanalytic ideas

CHAPTER ELEVEN: What does the other want?CHAPTER TWELVE: Intersecting Levinas and Bion: the ethical container in psychoanalysis and family therapy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78049-332-0

0-429-91970-0

0-429-90547-5

0-429-48070-9

1-282-77949-4

9786612779497

1-84940-827-0

9780429480706

OCLC:

680628717