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Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy - Exploring Theory, Frame and Practice (Hardcover)
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Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy - Exploring Theory, Frame and Practice (Hardcover)
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Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy: Exploring Theory,
Frame and Practice elegantly and skilfully weaves together relevant
literature, clinical reflections, compelling case material and
contemporary psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate how the presence
of an animal in the treatment arena can eventually bring about
relational, interpersonal and intrapsychic change. Contemporary
relational psychoanalytic literature has been virtually silent
about our relationship with animals, a feature seemingly intrinsic
to our relational worlds. This book seeks to remediate this void by
giving voice to the practice and principles of working relationally
in the presence of an animal. The text accentuates recurrent
themes: animals are seen by human beings as significant subjective
others and are treated as legitimate partners for relational and
interpersonal processes, attachment figures and transferential
objects; animals in the psychotherapy environment can play the role
as a 'bridge' from the unconscious to the conscious, from the
dissociated to the experienced, from the intrapsychic to the
interpersonal; as the third in the treatment arena, the animal
helps to reveal the field, bringing conflicts to life and making
them available for analysis in the clinical setting. In seeking to
authorise the incorporation of animals into the practice of
relational psychotherapy the text applies conventional concepts to
novel contexts; it extends psychoanalytic and relational principles
to create a theoretical framework within which to consider the
therapeutic effects of working in the triadic interactions of
therapist, client and animal and thus also begins to evolve a new
version of relational psychoanalytic practice. The authors value
the human-animal experience in treatment and repeatedly show how
the application of a relational psychoanalytic lens to the
patient-therapist-animal triad can enhance the therapeutic process
in ways that encourage progressive communication, understanding of
the patient and the relaxing of defences, leading to the
symbolising of relational capacity, therapeutic breakthrough and
intrapsychic change.
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