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Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at
the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic
work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw
on both the relational and modern psychoanalytic schools of thought
to examine a variety of different problems commonly experienced in
achieving emotional resonance between analyst and patient, setting
out ways in which such difficulties may be overcome in
psychoanalytic treatment, practical clinical settings and in
training contexts. A focused review of relevant comparative
literature is followed by chapters featuring individual clinical
case studies, each illustrating particularly challenging aspects.
The uniqueness of this book lays not simply in the espousal of the
commonly accepted importance of emotional resonance between analyst
and patient; rather it is in the way in which emotional presence is
registered by both participants, requiring a working through, which
at times can be not only difficult but dangerous. Such efforts
involve a theory which enables the lens to understanding, an
effective methodology which guides intervention. The book also
calls for the art of the analyst to construct with patients
meanings which heal, and possess the heart to persist in commitment
despite the odds. Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis is about
patients who suffer, struggle, resist and prevail. It offers
distinctive, transparently told accounts of analysts who engage
with patients, navigating through states of confusion, hatred and
more controversial feelings of love. Emotional Presence in
Psychoanalysis features highly compelling material written in an
accessible and easily understood style. It will be a valuable
resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists,
psychologists and clinical social workers as well as teachers,
trainers and students seeking to understand the power and potential
of the analytic process and the resistances to it.
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at
the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic
work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw
on both the relational and modern psychoanalytic schools of thought
to examine a variety of different problems commonly experienced in
achieving emotional resonance between analyst and patient, setting
out ways in which such difficulties may be overcome in
psychoanalytic treatment, practical clinical settings and in
training contexts. A focused review of relevant comparative
literature is followed by chapters featuring individual clinical
case studies, each illustrating particularly challenging aspects.
The uniqueness of this book lays not simply in the espousal of the
commonly accepted importance of emotional resonance between analyst
and patient; rather it is in the way in which emotional presence is
registered by both participants, requiring a working through, which
at times can be not only difficult but dangerous. Such efforts
involve a theory which enables the lens to understanding, an
effective methodology which guides intervention. The book also
calls for the art of the analyst to construct with patients
meanings which heal, and possess the heart to persist in commitment
despite the odds. Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis is about
patients who suffer, struggle, resist and prevail. It offers
distinctive, transparently told accounts of analysts who engage
with patients, navigating through states of confusion, hatred and
more controversial feelings of love. Emotional Presence in
Psychoanalysis features highly compelling material written in an
accessible and easily understood style. It will be a valuable
resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists,
psychologists and clinical social workers as well as teachers,
trainers and students seeking to understand the power and potential
of the analytic process and the resistances to it.
Here is a disguised but tragically accurate account of a 7-year-old
boy who was repeatedly victimized by two uncles who penetrated him,
required him under threat of violence to act upon them, and forced
him to have sexual contact with his sister for their entertainment.
Before his ongoing abuse was discovered, the child made several
serious suicide attempts. Verbatim accounts of the child's therapy
are used to illustrate a new treatment approach for abused
children, Synergistic Play Therapy, which follows the work of Haim
Ginott and Heinz Werner. Much that is written about play therapy
focuses on theoretical notions or intuitive, impressionistic
judgment. Seldom does a work make clear the rationale by which play
strategies and techniques are derived from underlying constructs.
This book links theoretical reasoning with the specific dos and
don'ts of clinical practice. The purpose, rationale, and impact for
interventions are woven into session transcripts and related to the
concepts upon which Synergistic Play Therapy is based. Topics
covered include rapport building and the beginning of restoration
of the child's trust in an adult male, therapeutic contact
negotiation, the introduction of metaphor, indirect referencing of
the trauma and the process building toward explicit emotional
disclosure and metaphoric retribution, the restoration of
self-esteem, 'emotional inoculation' against regression, and the
emergence of a future-oriented perspective characterized by
confidence and hopefulness. Therapists need a clearly defined and
well-documented set of guidelines for the treatment of sexually
abused children. Abused children become adult perpetrators in
numbers disproportionate to the rest of the population, but this
dire statistic holds true only for those victims who have not been
effectively helped as children. This book offers a means to provide
such treatment.
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