1st Edition
Creating a Human Psychoanalytic Setting Clinical Studies
1. Introduction: Creating a human analytic setting 2. Becoming a Subject: Some Theoretical and clinical issues 3. Revisiting Subject Relations Theory 4. Presence and Absence in Early Experience 5. What are Fathers for? 6.A Severe Form of Breakdown in Communication in the Psychoanalysis of an Ill Adolescent 7. Becoming a Psychoanalyst – Which home to go to? 8. Loneliness, Solitude and the Analyst 9. Some psychoanalytic thoughts about incest 10. Struggling with Words: Aspects of the psychoanalysis of a borderline man 11. Outtakes: Extracts from Journal 1976-2025
Biography
Dr Roger Kennedy is a consultant child psychiatrist, adult psychoanalyst, and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was an NHS consultant at the Cassel Hospital for 30 years and is now chair of the Child and Family Practice where he sees children and families. He has had sixteen previous books published on psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary studies, and child work, as well as many papers.






