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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779894903321

Autore

Charles Marilyn

Titolo

Learning from experience : a guidebook for clinicians / / Marilyn Charles ; with a foreword by Nancy McWilliams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hillsdale, N.J. : , : Analytic Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-138-17389-4

1-135-06060-6

0-203-76740-3

1-135-06061-4

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/5

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis - Vocational guidance

Psychotherapist and patient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-124) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Role of Theory; 3 Myth: Models of Reality; 4 Container and Contained; 5 Symptoms: Marking the Spot; 6 Klein's Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive Positions; 7 Transitional Space and the Use of an Object; 8 Projective Identification; 9 Truth and Lies; 10 Patterns; 11 Patterns as Templates: Understanding Transference; 12 Empathic Resonance: The Role of Countertransference; 13 Play: Opening Up the Space; 14 Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively deeper ways.  In an effort to aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to ""know thyself,"" Marilyn Charles turns to key ideas that have facilitated her own clinical work with difficult patients.  Concepts such as ""container"" and ""contained,"" transitional space, projective identification, and transference/countertransference are introduced not as academic ideas, b