The suffering stranger : hermeneutics for everyday clinical practice / Donna M. Orange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orange, Donna M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Philosophy.

Psychoanalysis.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major psychoanalytic thinkers - Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, and Bernard Brandchaft - investigating the hermeneutic approach of each and engaging these innovative thinkers precisely as interpreters, as those who have seen the f

Contents:

What is hermeneutics?

The suffering stranger and the hermeneutics of trust

Sandor Ferenczi : the analyst of last resort and the hermeneutics of trauma

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann : incommunicable loneliness

D.W. Winnicott : humanitarian without sentimentality

Heinz Kohut : glimpsing the hidden suffering

Bernard Brandchaft : liberating the incarcerated spirit.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-18411-9

1-283-24109-9

9786613241092

1-135-18412-7

0-203-86363-1

9780203863633

OCLC:

781458772