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Entering Night Country - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience (Hardcover)
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Entering Night Country - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience (Hardcover)
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
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None of us will escape the experience of personal loss, illness,
aging, or mortality. Yet, psychoanalysis seems to shy away from a
discussion of these core human experiences. Existential
vulnerability is painful and we all avoid this awareness in
different ways. However, when analysts fail to explore the topic of
mortality, their own and their patients, they may foreclose an
important exploration and short-change patient and therapist.
Entering Night Country focuses on the existential condition, and
explores how it penetrates professional lives, analytic work, and
theoretical formulations. Each chapter explores this topic,
shifting the lens from analytic process, to include theoretical
assumptions, and professional communities. Stephanie Brody shows
how the analytic process is a journey, no less profound than the
epic journeys depicted in the classic literature of Homer and
repeated in the patient's own heroic and painful stories. Weaving
literary references into the clinical experience of psychoanalysis,
Brody reveals the transformative power of the analytic process for
the patient and for the analyst. By relating the ancient past to
our current struggles, psychoanalyst and patient together are
guided to a destination, a life of meaning in the universe of
possibilities. Clinical vignettes and personal reflections
intersect with motifs from the epic poems and fantasy fiction,
where the despair of loss and trauma do not extinguish the wish for
change and the search for intimacy. Entering Night Country
highlights the common themes that arise for patient and analyst as
any person entering an unknown territory. It is intended for
psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, and
mental health clinicians. It will also be accessible to those
outside the clinical profession, even to individuals who have
little understanding of psychoanalysis.
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