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Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis: Clinical Case Seminars book cover

1st Edition

Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis Clinical Case Seminars

Edited By John E. Gedo, Mark J. Gehrie Copyright 1993
320 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge
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Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis offers a rare perspective on the technical difficulties and creative responses to them that typify clinical psychoanalysis.  The four seminars at the heart of this volume are not case reports in the usual sense.  Rather, each seminar revolves around the challenges of translating an understanding of difficult process issues into an effective... Read more
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Biography

John E. Gedo, M.D., retired in 1990 as Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He is the author of numerous books for Analytic Press, including The Biology of Clinical Encounters (1991) and The Mind in Disorder (1998).

Mark J. Gehrie, Ph.D., trained in both anthropology and psychoanalysis, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  A frequent contributor to the literatures of both anthropology and psychoanalysis, Dr. Gehrie maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis in Chicago.

"The cases have been carefully selected, not only with respect to the nature and depth of their psychopathology but also to address such questions as their fundamental analyzability, potential for evoking counterresistance and countertransference, and considerations of analytic technique."

- Jerrold Brandell, Ph.D., Readings 

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