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Jo Klein presents a picture of herself at work. A sense of vocation, backed up by years of experience, permeates not only the content of this book, but also its language, which is vivid, personal, and deeply in touch with the inner selves of both her patients and herself.
Sommario
Preamble -- Concerning Values -- Imagination and the institutional mind -- Depression, disadvantage, and the creative response -- Concerning Theories and Techniques -- Psychotherapeutics: what makes people better? -- Holding: recognizing, accepting, understanding, containing, organizing, integrating, metabolizing, and other such -- Patients who are not ready for interpretations -- Times when transference interpretations are (in)appropriate -- Using general concepts of structure to understand regression, transference, and the working alliance -- Early attachments and sources of later well-being -- Concerning the Development of Ideas -- Fathers: changes in psychoanalytic ideas on men’s relationship with their children -- The contrasting histories of psychoanalytic thought in the United States and the United Kingdom
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Josephine Klein was an academic for the first twenty years of her professional life and then a psychotherapist in private practice, now retired. She is a Fellow of the London Centre for Psychotherapy and was until recently a member of the British Association of Psychotherapists.
Riassunto
This book is a collection of occasional papers on the practice of psychotherapy for pre-qualification students and for more experienced professionals, focusing on the development of some psychoanalytic theories into their social and historical context.
