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Learning from Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst book cover

1st Edition

Learning from Life Becoming a Psychoanalyst

By Patrick Casement Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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All of life can be a resource for our learning. In his fourth and most personal book, Patrick Casement attempts to understand what he has learned from life, sharing a wide range of those experiences that have helped shape the analyst he has become. Patrick Casement shares various incidents in his life to demonstrate how these helped lay a foundation for his subsequent understanding of... Read more
Williams, Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Development. Learning From Life. An Emerging Sense of Direction. Finding a Place for Theory. Learning to Say "No". Hate and Containment. Samuel Beckett's Relationship to his Mother-tongue. Mourning and Failure to Mourn. Internal Supervision in Process: A Case Presentation. Developing Clinical Antennae. Part II: Reflections. Some Things Difficult to Explain. Certainty and Non-certainty. Looking Back.

Biography

Patrick Casement has been a psychoanalyst and therapist in full-time private practice for many years, having previously been a social worker. He is author of On Learning from the Patient and Further Learning from the Patient. His last book Learning from Our Mistakes received a Gradiva award for its contribution to psychoanalysis.

"...I recommend it whole-heartedly..." Martin Smith, Journal of Social Work Practice

"An interesting, delightful and insightful read." - Journal of Analytical Psychology 2007 (52) 

"The book is insightful and follows a familiar trope to his previous writings. It is well worth the read." - Jennifer Silverstone, Reflections Magazine, Summer 2007

"This book touches both heart and mind." - Therapy Today

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