On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind

This is a problem almost all practising psychoanalysts will face at some time in their career, yet there is very little in the existing literature which offers guidance in this important area.

On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind provides clear guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, and how he/she can interpret these states, using them as a basis for insight and psychic change in the patient. Employing extensive and detailed clinical examples, and addressing important areas of Kleinian theory, the author examines the problems that underlie severe pathology, and shows how meaningful analytic work can take place, even with very disturbed patients.

On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind will be a useful and practical guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and all those working in psychological settings with severely disturbed patients.

About the author

Riesenberg-Malcolm, Ruth

Summary

Reisenberg-Malcolm provides clear guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate their often intolerably painful states of mind, and how to interpret these communications.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm, Riesenberg-Malcolm Ruth
• Assisted by: Priscilla Roth (Editor), Roth Priscilla (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.02.1999
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780415205191
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20519-1
• Pages: 216
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 23.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 400 g
• Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Kleinian Psychoanalysis, Clinical Case Studies, defence mechanisms, transference dynamics, superego formation, working with psychotic patients, severe psychopathology