1st Edition
The Making of Psychotherapists An Anthropological Analysis
By James Davies
Copyright 2009
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic... Read more
ContentsChapter I: The Rise and Fall of the PsychodynamicChapter II: The Therapeutic EncounterChapter III: Irony in the Therapeutic EncounterChapter IV: The Seminar EncounterChapter V: Deflecting Doubt, Maintaining CertaintyChapter VI: Clinical SupervisionChapter VII: Illness Aetiologies and the Susceptibilities of TrainingChapter VIII: The Transformed Practitioner
Biography
James Davies
