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Whether you are thinking about starting therapy, going to graduate
school, or are yourself a practicing healer of hearts and minds,
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Personal Stories of Doctoral
Training offers a wealth of useful information about today's
training and trainees.. This book is a collection of accounts
written by a diverse group of early-career psychologists and
doctoral students in their final stages of training. Each of the
twelve authors provides a deeply personal, inside perspective on
becoming a therapist. Some of the chapters combine qualitative
research with the author's particular experience, while others
emphasize the author's personal journey as s/he moves from novice
to clinician. Some of the issues that are covered include the ways
in which training affects personal and professional relationships
with spouses, friends, peers, faculty and supervisors, and clients;
how budding clinicians deal with their own issues and feelings of
inadequacy; and how trainees learn to develop the right balance of
empathy and detachment in working with clients. Also unique to this
collection is the diversity reflected in the contributors, which
include an Orthodox Jewish gay man who "came out" during training;
a Black woman of African descent who found a home in the
psychoanalytic approach; a White man who experienced minority
status in his mostly female doctoral program; a bisexual, White
woman who had to negotiate misperceptions and judgments as she
moved through her clinical training; and a dissident student who
came from another profession and found herself at odds with most of
her professors and supervisors about the role of trauma in the
etiology of mental illness. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist is a
compelling read for those both inside and outside the field of
psychology.
In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a
Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at
omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity.
They demonstrate how these fantasies emerge and how artists draw on
them both to create and destroy-sometimes simultaneously - and how
understanding this can help psychoanalysts work more effectively
with these individuals. Using the personal statements of
influential artists and entertainers, in addition to clinical
material, the authors examine the omnipotence of self-destruction
as it contends with that of creative artists. The authors argue
that creative artists use omnipotent fantasies to imagine the world
differently - this enables them to produce their art, but also
leaves these artists vulnerable to addiction. Chapters devoted to
Stephen King and Anne Sexton demonstrate the ways these authors
used drugs and alcohol to fuel imagination and inspire creative
output while simultaneously doing harm to themselves. A detailed
case study also demonstrates successful clinical work with a
creative substance user. Sex, Drugs, and Creativity will appeal to
anyone interested in the links between creativity and substance
use, and will be of great use to psychoanalysts and mental health
practitioners working with these challenging clients.
In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a
Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at
omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity.
They demonstrate how these fantasies emerge and how artists draw on
them both to create and destroy-sometimes simultaneously - and how
understanding this can help psychoanalysts work more effectively
with these individuals. Using the personal statements of
influential artists and entertainers, in addition to clinical
material, the authors examine the omnipotence of self-destruction
as it contends with that of creative artists. The authors argue
that creative artists use omnipotent fantasies to imagine the world
differently - this enables them to produce their art, but also
leaves these artists vulnerable to addiction. Chapters devoted to
Stephen King and Anne Sexton demonstrate the ways these authors
used drugs and alcohol to fuel imagination and inspire creative
output while simultaneously doing harm to themselves. A detailed
case study also demonstrates successful clinical work with a
creative substance user. Sex, Drugs, and Creativity will appeal to
anyone interested in the links between creativity and substance
use, and will be of great use to psychoanalysts and mental health
practitioners working with these challenging clients.
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