Nourishing the inner life of clinicians and humanitarians : the ethical turn in psychoanalysis / / Donna M. Orange

• Autore: Orange Donna M.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.89/14
• Soggetto topico: Psychotherapists - Psychology; Psychotherapist and patient; Psychic trauma; Intersubjectivity; Humanitarianism - Psychological aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Trauma and traumatism – 2. Radical responsibility and clinical hospitality – 3. Is ethics masochism? Infinite ethical responsibility and finite human capacity – 4. Philosophy as a way of life: Pierre Hadot – 5. Witness to indignity: Primo Levi – 6. Substitution: Nelson Mandela and Dietrich Bonhoeffer – 7. Ethics as optics: Fyodor Dostoevsky – 8. Clinical and humanitarian work as prophetic word – 9. From contrite fallibilism to humility: clinical, personal, and humanitarian
• Sommario/riassunto: "Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, demonstrates the demanding, clinical and humanitarian work that psychotherapists often undertake with fragile and devastated people, those degraded by violence and discrimination. In spite of this, Donna M. Orange argues that there is more to human nature than a relentlessly negative view. Drawing on psychoanalytic and philosophical resources, as well as stories from history and literature, she explores ethical narratives that ground hope in human goodness and shows how these voices, personal to each analyst, can become sources of courage, warning and support, of prophetic challenge and humility which can inform and guide their work. Over the course of a lifetime, the sources change, with new ones emerging into importance, others receding into the background. Donna Orange uses examples from ancient Rome (Marcus Aurelius), from twentieth century Europe (Primo Levi, Emmanuel Levinas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer), from South Africa (Nelson Mandela), and from nineteenth century Russia (Fyodor Dostoevsky). She shows how not only can their words and examples, like those of our personal mentors, inspire and warn us; but they also show us the daily discipline of spiritual self-care, although these examples rely heavily on the discipline of spiritual reading, other practitioners will find inspiration in music, visual arts, or elsewhere and replenish the resources regularly. Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians will help psychoanalysts to develop a language with which to converse about ethics and the responsibility of the therapist/analyst. This is an exceptional contribution highly suitable for practitioners and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy."
• Titolo autorizzato: Nourishing the inner life of clinicians and humanitarians
• ISBN: 1-317-38630-2; 1-315-67681-8; 1-317-38629-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797845203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II