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An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging
for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know
oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's
experience in useful and progressively deeper ways. In an effort to
aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to "know thyself,"
Marilyn Charles turns to key ideas that have facilitated her own
clinical work with difficult patients. Concepts such as "container"
and "contained," transitional space, projective identification, and
transference/countertransference are introduced not as academic
ideas, but as aspects of the therapeutic environment that elicit
greater creativity and vitality on the therapist's part. In
Charles's skillful hands, the basic ideas of Klein, Winnicott, and
Bion become newly comprehensible without losing depth and richness;
they come to life in the fulcrum of daily clinical encounter.
In recent years, various tributaries of psychoanalytic and
developmental theory have flowed into our dawning understanding of
the role of early sensory and affective experiences in the
construction of our personal worlds. In Patterns: Building Blocks
of Experience, Marilyn Charles shows how such primary experiences
coalesce into patterns, those essential units of meaning that
capture the unique subjectivity of each individual. Frequently
"known" by their prosody or affective melody, patterns come to have
profound meanings that we utilize in constructing basic notions of
self and other. Through pattern, Charles holds, we approach elusive
meanings through dimensions of shape, contour, and affective
resonance. Such patterned understandings, in turn, become a mode of
interchange through which we touch one another in ways that go
beyond the overtly physical.
Analytic patients, Charles finds, have often led early lives too
full of "noise" to use their early sensory and affective
experiences constructively. Such patients tend to live out patterns
that operate unconsciously and have become literally
incomprehensible. Analytic communication, by drawing explicit
attention to such patterned experience, provides new images that
intrude on ingrained patterns of thinking about the self and other.
Out of the productive clash of analytically co-constructed images
and the invariant patterns of the past emerge new conceptions of
what the patient may choose to be in the present moment.
Through it all, Charles displays an admirable willingness to sit in
difficult spaces and to work through troubling therapeutic impasses
from the inside out, rather than from some point of ostensible
safety. This finely textured and richly evocative study, which
grows out of Charles' extensive clinical work with artists,
writers, and musicians, is a signal contribution to developmental
theory, clinical theory, and the psychology of creativity.
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary
psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often
thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet those
familiar with it recognize the profound value of psychoanalytic
theory and technique. Part of the obscurity may come from
psychoanalytic language itself, which is often impenetrable. The
complexity of the subject matter has lent itself to a confusion of
tongues and yet, at base, psychoanalysis remains an earnest attempt
to make sense of and ease human distress. Introduction to
Contemporary Psychoanalysis seeks to make this rich wealth of
information more accessible to clinicians and trainees.
Psychoanalytic clinicians from various schools here describe the
key ideas that underlie their particular perspective, helping the
reader to see how they apply those ideas in their clinical work.
Inviting the contributors to speak about their actual practice,
rather than merely providing an overview, this book helps the
reader to see common threads that run across perspectives, but also
to recognize ways in which the different lenses from each of the
perspectives inform interventions Through brief vignettes, the
reader is offered an experience-near sense of what it might be like
to apply those ideas in their own work. The contributors also note
the limits or weaknesses of their particular theory, inviting the
reader to consider the broader spectrum of these diverse offerings
so that the benefits of each might be more visible. Introduction to
Contemporary Psychoanalysis offers readers the richness and
diversity of psychoanalytic theory and technique, so that the
advantages of each particular lens might be visible and accessible
as a further tool in their clinical work. This novel, comparative
work will be an essential text for any psychoanalyst or
psychoanalytically inclined therapist in training, as well as
clinicians and those who teach psychoanalytic theory and technique.
An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging
for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know
oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's
experience in useful and progressively deeper ways. In an effort to
aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to "know thyself,"
Marilyn Charles turns to key ideas that have facilitated her own
clinical work with difficult patients. Concepts such as "container"
and "contained," transitional space, projective identification, and
transference/countertransference are introduced not as academic
ideas, but as aspects of the therapeutic environment that elicit
greater creativity and vitality on the therapist's part. In
Charles's skillful hands, the basic ideas of Klein, Winnicott, and
Bion become newly comprehensible without losing depth and richness;
they come to life in the fulcrum of daily clinical encounter.
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents
various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves
communicative, developmental, and relational functions,
highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play
in terms useful to early childhood educators. The book explicitly
links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood
classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering
accessible information that can help teachers better understand the
meanings of children's expressive acts. Contributors from
education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore
techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children
play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the
ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom.
They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for
teachers and other professionals. The Imprtance of Play in Early
Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers,
psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and
developmental psychologists.
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents
various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves
communicative, developmental, and relational functions,
highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play
in terms useful to early childhood educators. The book explicitly
links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood
classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering
accessible information that can help teachers better understand the
meanings of children's expressive acts. Contributors from
education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore
techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children
play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the
ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom.
They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for
teachers and other professionals. The Imprtance of Play in Early
Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers,
psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and
developmental psychologists.
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary
psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often
thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet those
familiar with it recognize the profound value of psychoanalytic
theory and technique. Part of the obscurity may come from
psychoanalytic language itself, which is often impenetrable. The
complexity of the subject matter has lent itself to a confusion of
tongues and yet, at base, psychoanalysis remains an earnest attempt
to make sense of and ease human distress. Introduction to
Contemporary Psychoanalysis seeks to make this rich wealth of
information more accessible to clinicians and trainees.
Psychoanalytic clinicians from various schools here describe the
key ideas that underlie their particular perspective, helping the
reader to see how they apply those ideas in their clinical work.
Inviting the contributors to speak about their actual practice,
rather than merely providing an overview, this book helps the
reader to see common threads that run across perspectives, but also
to recognize ways in which the different lenses from each of the
perspectives inform interventions Through brief vignettes, the
reader is offered an experience-near sense of what it might be like
to apply those ideas in their own work. The contributors also note
the limits or weaknesses of their particular theory, inviting the
reader to consider the broader spectrum of these diverse offerings
so that the benefits of each might be more visible. Introduction to
Contemporary Psychoanalysis offers readers the richness and
diversity of psychoanalytic theory and technique, so that the
advantages of each particular lens might be visible and accessible
as a further tool in their clinical work. This novel, comparative
work will be an essential text for any psychoanalyst or
psychoanalytically inclined therapist in training, as well as
clinicians and those who teach psychoanalytic theory and technique.
In recent years, various tributaries of psychoanalytic and
developmental theory have flowed into our dawning understanding of
the role of early sensory and affective experiences in the
construction of our personal worlds. In Patterns: Building Blocks
of Experience, Marilyn Charles shows how such primary experiences
coalesce into patterns, those essential units of meaning that
capture the unique subjectivity of each individual. Frequently
"known" by their prosody or affective melody, patterns come to have
profound meanings that we utilize in constructing basic notions of
self and other. Through pattern, Charles holds, we approach elusive
meanings through dimensions of shape, contour, and affective
resonance. Such patterned understandings, in turn, become a mode of
interchange through which we touch one another in ways that go
beyond the overtly physical. Analytic patients, Charles finds, have
often led early lives too full of "noise" to use their early
sensory and affective experiences constructively. Such patients
tend to live out patterns that operate unconsciously and have
become literally incomprehensible. Analytic communication, by
drawing explicit attention to such patterned experience, provides
new images that intrude on ingrained patterns of thinking about the
self and other. Out of the productive clash of analytically
co-constructed images and the invariant patterns of the past emerge
new conceptions of what the patient may choose to be in the present
moment. Through it all, Charles displays an admirable willingness
to sit in difficult spaces and to work through troubling
therapeutic impasses from the inside out, rather than from some
point of ostensible safety. This finely textured and richly
evocative study, which grows out of Charles' extensive clinical
work with artists, writers, and musicians, is a signal contribution
to developmental theory, clinical theory, and the psychology of
creativity.
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan by Marilyn Charles
takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates
them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on
clinical work with more severely disturbed patients, for whom
trauma has impeded their psychosocial development. Introducing
ideas from Bion and Lacan, such as "empty speech" and "attacks on
linking," she shows the reader their clinical utility. Her use of
clinical moments, rather than more lengthy vignettes, invites
readers to recognize that type of dilemma and imagine how they
might use the concept in their own work.
Psychoanalysis has traditionally viewed women as objects of desire.
Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis uses a
contemporary psychoanalytic view to resituate womenâs place in
the narrative as desiring subjects. Contributors to this collection
raise questions about the status of woman in culture and society
and contend with the theme of loss and mourning that has been
associated with women since the beginning of psychoanalysis. The
various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in
diverse societies and cultures are explored in order to reconstruct
the role of women in modern psychoanalysis.
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the
question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered
socio-political contexts. Chapter themes include diverse topics
such as: black and ethnic minority women's experiences of
psychosis; psychosis in transwomen; sexual trauma and psychosis;
the doctor-patient relationship; and women's experiences of mental
health treatment and recovery. Chapters span the disciplines of
psychoanalysis, sociology, feminism / women's studies, critical
theory, and mad studies. As a companion volume to Women and
Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, the overarching goal of
this book is to provide an exploration of the unique interaction
between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized
women's mental health.
Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a
variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal,
literary, spiritual, psychological, biological, and psychodynamic
approaches. The contributors reflect on medieval mystics and
witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and
literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia.
Women with experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman
provide first-person accounts to give the book a personal
grounding. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about
women and psychosis, the contributors to this collection recognize
that "voices and visions" do not occur in a vacuum, but are
experienced within, and are influenced by, particular
socio-cultural contexts.
Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis: Loss,
Mourning, and the Feminine uses contemporary psychoanalytic views
to resituate women as desiring subjects within the psychoanalytic
narrative. Contributors to this edited collection explore the
various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in
diverse societies and cultures in order to reconstruct the role of
women in modern psychoanalysis. They raise questions about the
status of women in culture and society and contend with themes that
psychoanalysts have associated with women since the late nineteenth
century, such as loss and mourning, femininity and motherhood, and
desire and sexuality. This book is recommended for students and
scholars of psychology, gender studies, cultural studies,
literature, and philosophy.
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the
question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered
sociopolitical contexts. Contributors to this edited collection
engage with a diverse range of topics, including black and ethnic
minority women's experiences of psychosis, psychosis in transwomen,
sexual trauma and psychosis, the doctor-patient relationship, and
women's experiences of mental health treatment and recovery.
Chapters span the disciplines of psychoanalysis, sociology, women's
studies, critical theory, and madness studies.
Lives Interrupted: Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and
Resilience provides insight into the everyday experiences of
individuals struggling with severe psychic distress during a
six-month immersion program at the Fountain House headquarters, a
New York-based organization that works to address the effects of
serious mental illness. These narratives add complexity and
objectivity to the expanding discussion of psychiatric treatment
plans. Contributors to this collection argue that narratives are
vital to treatment and should not be treated as secondary options
to standard diagnosis and treatment practices that rely heavily on
pharmaceuticals and often result in short-term revolving-door
interventions for complex forms of human suffering.
Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a
variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal,
literary, spiritual, psychological, biological and psychodynamic
approaches. Chapter themes include explorations of medieval mystics
and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and
literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia.
Women with lived experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a
shaman provide personal accounts to ground the book in lived
experience. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think
about women and psychosis, the contributions to this title
recognize that 'voices and visions' do not occur in a vacuum but
are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular
socio-cultural contexts.
Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful
clinically but not always accessible in the original. In
Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles
pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight the
essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room.
This pairing depathologizes those struggles and offers a conceptual
framework that can help the clinician facilitate these journeys of
discovery. Describing first how literature affords an opportunity
for vicarious engagement with struggles endemic to the human
condition, she then focuses on trauma, dreams, and 'cultural
collisions' turning more explicitly to the developmental challenges
of identity, relatedness, aging, and generativity. Psychoanalysis
and Literature is accessible, relevant, and timely.
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting:
Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory brings together scholars from
a variety of disciplines that draw on multiple perspectives to
address issues that arise at the intersection of trauma, history,
and memory. Contributors include critical theorists, critical
historians, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and a working artist.
The authors use intergenerational trauma theory while also pushing
and pulling at the edges of conventional understandings of how
trauma is defined. This book respects the importance of the
recuperation of memory and the creation of interstitial spaces
where trauma might be voiced. The writers are consistent in showing
a deep respect for the sociohistorical context of subjective
formation and the political importance of recuperating dangerous
memory-the kind of memory that some authorities go to great lengths
to erase. The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of
Forgetting is of interest to critical historians, critical social
theorists, psychotherapists, psychosocial theorists, and to those
exploring the possibilities of life as the practice of freedom.
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child:
Healing through Intervention approaches trauma from
transgenerational perspectives that go back to the early
colonization of Australia, and describes what that event has
historically meant for the country's Aboriginal population and its
culture. This history has continued to propagate traumatically
across subsequent generations. This book reveals the work underway
at Gunawirra, a group in Sydney founded to work against
transgenerational trauma in families with children aged 0-5. The
group then began working with projects in more than forty country
preschools throughout the state of New South Wales. Two intrinsic
forms of healing that are an integral part of this ancient culture:
Dadirri (deep listening), and The Dreaming, are foundational
concepts for the treatment. While these concepts are core elements
of the project, this book also employs fresh contemporary theory
and case studies that present ways to effectively address the
deeper psychological origins and presence of trauma in our
present-day preschool children, and in traumatized children
throughout the world. It gives special attention to the use of
therapeutic measures based in psychoanalytic thought and related
modes of responding to trauma. Through many moving examples the
book unites-through art, stories of The Dreaming, and the ancient
gift of listening-a powerful way of approaching present-day work
with Aboriginal people and their children. The contributors' work
is at the forefront of field research, clinical work, and
theoretical interdisciplinary work. This book is essential to
workers and teachers who deal daily with traumatized children in
their communities and schools. In the usefulness of its model, the
depth of its thinking, and the intensity of its methodology,
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child breaks
new ground in the treatment of trauma for people who care for
children everywhere.
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma,
History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that
highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments
memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is
unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of
narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have
been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well
as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation's
attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface.
Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting
succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there
emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on
itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing
show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with
whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face
of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes
hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a
betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of
intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our
ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of
unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted
with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our
silence.
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan by Marilyn Charles
takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates
them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on
clinical work with more severely disturbed patients, for whom
trauma has impeded their psychosocial development. Introducing
ideas from Bion and Lacan, such as "empty speech" and "attacks on
linking," she shows the reader their clinical utility. Her use of
clinical moments, rather than more lengthy vignettes, invites
readers to recognize that type of dilemma and imagine how they
might use the concept in their own work.
This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic
ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical
contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work
with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes
of working that respects emotions, that embrace context, and that
privilege imagination and possibility. For professionals who
already practice in ways that are sympathetic to these modes of
working, the scholarly underpinning of this work offers a rationale
for taking a stand in favor of emotionally focused, child-centered
work and in opposition to systems that negate the lives of
children. This book is for caring professionals who devote their
lives to creating spaces for children to find their own paths and
is intended to serve as a source of sustenance and support for such
work.
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