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Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis - Stories from Adolescence to the Consulting Room (Hardcover)
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Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis - Stories from Adolescence to the Consulting Room (Hardcover)
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Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis explores
the therapeutic space between the patient and therapist in
psychoanalysis and the transformative effect of the therapeutic
relationship through a collection of twenty-two short stories
beginning at a moment of trauma in adolescence. Christina Moutsou
illustrates both contemporary clinical issues as well as the
relational and intersubjective nature of the therapy relationship.
First, six teenagers narrate in the first person their experience
of battling with sexual abuse, eating disorder, body image, the
first sexual awakening, loss of a parent and the intricacies of
teenage friendship. The stories then unravel years later as adults
in the consulting rooms of Ellie and Jake, two middle-aged
therapists working in London. The reader is offered an intimate
look at how the therapists work through their personal losses and
past wounds, while facing their patients' conflicts and dilemmas
including adoption, bereavement, pregnancy loss, lack of intimacy
in the couple relationship and a diagnosis of borderline
personality disorder. What distinguishes this collection of
fictional clinical narratives is the focus on an internal point of
view, where the reader is invited to experience first-hand the
tribulations of the psychoanalytic dialogue and the enduring marks
that trauma and loss leave on each member of the therapeutic dyad.
The focus here is on how narratives are constructed and
deconstructed through the intersubjective dance between the
therapist and the patient. Both are transformed in the process. The
fictional nature of the stories also allows for the exploration of
sensitive issues that are difficult or awkward to explore
adequately using direct case studies from real-life examples. This
fascinating and unusual work provides an innovative method of
exploring everyday clinical dilemmas, using an accessible, easy to
follow narrative path. It is written from a broadly relational
perspective but will appeal to all psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
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