1st Edition

Creating a Human Psychoanalytic Setting Clinical Studies

By Roger Kennedy Copyright 2026
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book looks at how psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in a variety of settings and can respect the individual experience and circumstances of each patient. It focuses on the analytic encounter and the hard task around trying to create what the author calls a human analytic setting, one which respects human diversity and theoretical pluralism, pays adequate attention to the patient’s... Read more

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.