1st Edition
The Impossibility of Knowing Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist
By Jackie Gerrard
Copyright 2011
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a book that assembles and integrates the author's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part 1 focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and explores particular difficulties in technique and thinking. Part 2 addresses the issues of love, hate, and the erotic. In Part 3, specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame are... Read more
Introduction , Specific Types of Psychopathology , On travelling hopefully: some aspects of the difficulties of working with patients with obsessional thought disorder , Spaces in between , A sense of entitlement: vicissitudes of working with “special” patients , Love, Hate, and the Erotic , Love in the time of psychotherapy , Love and hate in the therapeutic encounter , Seduction and betrayal , Challenges to the Psychotherapeutic Frame , Enactments in the countertransference (with special reference to rescue fantasies with hysterical patients) , A question of absence , Dilemmas of a psychotherapist
Biography
Jackie Gerrard
