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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.
2020 Gradiva Award Nominee, Best Edited Book Psychoanalytic
Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and
Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured,
or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women's identity,
authority and satisfaction. Psychoanalysis has long struggled with
its ideas about women, about who they are, how to work with them,
and how to respect and encourage what women want. This book argues
that psychoanalytic theory and practice must evolve to maintain its
relevance in a volatile landscape. Each section of the book begins
with a chapter that reviews contemporary ideas regarding women, as
well as psychoanalytic history, gender bias, and societal norms and
deficits. Three composite clinical stories allow our distinguished
contributors to discuss the contexts within which individual
experience can be affected, and the role that clinical work may
have to mobilize and advance passion and vitality. In their
discussions, the interplay of clinical psychoanalysis,
sociopolitical context, and understanding of gender, combine to
offer a unique perspective, built on decades of scholarship,
personal experience, and clinical expertise. Psychoanalytic
Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and
Leadership will serve as a reference for all psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars
interested in the progress of psychoanalytic theory regarding women
in the 21st century. Contributors to this book include: Rosemary
Balsam, Brenda Bauer, Andrea Celenza, Diane Elise, Adrienne Harris,
Dorothy Holmes, Nancy Kulish, Vivian Pendar, Dionne Powell, and
Arlene Richards.
2020 Gradiva Award Nominee, Best Edited Book Psychoanalytic
Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and
Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured,
or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women's identity,
authority and satisfaction. Psychoanalysis has long struggled with
its ideas about women, about who they are, how to work with them,
and how to respect and encourage what women want. This book argues
that psychoanalytic theory and practice must evolve to maintain its
relevance in a volatile landscape. Each section of the book begins
with a chapter that reviews contemporary ideas regarding women, as
well as psychoanalytic history, gender bias, and societal norms and
deficits. Three composite clinical stories allow our distinguished
contributors to discuss the contexts within which individual
experience can be affected, and the role that clinical work may
have to mobilize and advance passion and vitality. In their
discussions, the interplay of clinical psychoanalysis,
sociopolitical context, and understanding of gender, combine to
offer a unique perspective, built on decades of scholarship,
personal experience, and clinical expertise. Psychoanalytic
Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and
Leadership will serve as a reference for all psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars
interested in the progress of psychoanalytic theory regarding women
in the 21st century. Contributors to this book include: Rosemary
Balsam, Brenda Bauer, Andrea Celenza, Diane Elise, Adrienne Harris,
Dorothy Holmes, Nancy Kulish, Vivian Pendar, Dionne Powell, and
Arlene Richards.
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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