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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813321903321

Autore

Mander Gertrud

Titolo

Diversity, discipline, and devotion in psychoanalytic psychotherapy : clinical and training perspectives / / edited on behalf of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy by Gertrud Mander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2007

ISBN

0-429-91283-8

0-429-89860-6

0-429-47383-4

1-283-06945-8

9786613069450

1-84940-582-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

UKCP Karnac series

Disciplina

616.891407155

Soggetti

Psychotherapists - Supervision of

Psychotherapists - Training of

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. 227-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I MODELS AND METHODS; PART II CLINICAL AND OTHER MATTERS; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training and supervising psychotherapists, psychodynamic counsellors and supervisors. It reflects a preoccupation with the growth and diversification of counselling and psychotherapy, with the imperatives of training, supervision and regulation, and with the significant changes in the profession due to the invention of brief, time-limited, intermittent and recurrent psychotherapy. An overall theme is the conviction that what patients and therapists share is vulnerability, and that the therapist is a 'wounded healer', whose reparative tendency informs his professional choice, his therapeutic empathy and his capacity to bear the rigours of therapeutic work. Thus an unconscious connection between the helper



and the helped is the driving force of every therapeutic relationship, for better and for worse. Its responsible management requires thorough training, ongoing supervision and a firm frame in order to contain the powerful forces operating when two strangers meet for the purpose of therapy.