1st Edition
The Rupture of Serenity External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique
By Aisha Abbasi
Copyright 2014
184 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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What happens when the outside world enters the psychoanalytic space? In The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, the author draws on clinical material to describe some of the dilemmas she has encountered in her work with patients when external factors have entered the treatment frame. She considers analytic dilemmas that range from how to deal with patients'... Read more
Introduction , When Events in the Analyst’s Life Intrude upon Clinical Space , The analyst’s infertility and subsequent pregnancy , When Others Intrude upon Clinical Space , Waiting-room dramas between patients , “Have you Heard?” Revelations regarding the analyst , When Machines Intrude Upon Clinical Space , A patient’s tape recording of analytic sessions , From an iPhone, through an iPad and an iMac, to the Cloud: the evolution of a sense of “I-ness” , When Political Events Intrude Upon Clinical Space , Sadistic transferences in the context of ethnic difference: before and after 9/11 , Osama bin Laden’s death and its impact on the analytic process
Biography
Aisha Abbasi
