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This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.
List of contents
Statement of Confidentiality , Series Foreword , Introduction , Psychoanalytic Approaches to Working with Patients , Theory in use: perspectives on containment , Countertransference experiences as an aid to staff working with traumatised patients , Thinking psychoanalytically about mental health services for children, adolescents, and their parents , Siobhan O’Connor: two tributes , Learning from women with psychosis , Staff and Organisational Needs and Challenges , Reflective psychiatry: psychoanalytic theory in everyday clinical practice , Working with dilemmas and disappointment in difficult places: towards a psychosocial model for team-focused reflective practice , On being an observing participant in a therapeutic institution: using psychoanalytic understanding in the work in an organisation , A view from a death: understanding the impact on staff of mental health work with older adults , The organisational context for good care , General practice, mental health, and stress. Part 1: a dialogue , General practice, mental health, and stress. Part 2: organisational model and commentary on the postmodern context , Concluding remarks
About the author
Alison Vaspe trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists (now the British Psychotherapy Foundation), before applying for membership as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytic Association. She has extensive experience of working therapeutically with NHS staff and students, including fifteen years at the South London & Maudsley Foundation Trust. She is now in full-time private practice in Hampshire.
Summary
This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.
