Full Description
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explores how relational analysts think about and pursue long-term therapeutic relationships in their practices. Many therapists work intensively with their clients over many years and don't necessarily talk about their work. More exploration is needed into what is taking place inside of these long-term relationships.
The chapters cover a range of topics that focus on aspects of the therapeutic relationship that are unique to long-term psychoanalytic work. They include work with various issues such as trauma, death and dying, cross-cultural issues, suffering, mourning, neuropsychoanalysis, unique endings, attachment, intimacy, and the many ways in which therapists change along with their clients as they go through life stages together.
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychodynamic psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, workers in other mental health fields, graduate students, and anyone who is interested in change processes.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Terrain
An Interview with Joyce Edward JOYCE EDWARD & SUSAN LORD
Long-Term Psychotherapy: Whyever Not? (A Question of Assumptions) PATRICIA DEYOUNG
It Takes as Long as it Takes: Therapists' Subjective Experiences of Long-Term Therapy JEAN KOTCHER
In Defense of Long-Term Treatment: On the Vanishing Holding Environment WILLIAM S. MEYER
Long-Term Treatment in the Rearview Mirror WILLIAM S. MEYER
Part II: Trauma and Issues of Attachment
Mourning the Melancholy Object: Giving Voice to Traumatic Experience CAROL GANZER
The Role of Ethnicity and Culture in the Long-Term Treatment of Childhood Trauma SHOSHANA RINGEL
It Takes a Long Time to Grow Young: Working Relationally with Developmental Trauma NATALIE PEACOCK-CORRAL
Masks, Walls and Metaphors: Reflections on Long-Term Treatment KATHY FARGIONE
Part III: How Could It Be Otherwise?
Being Still: Sitting with Suffering in Long-Term Relational Practice JOAN BERZOFF
Till Death Do Us Part: Relational Work and Terminal Illness SUSAN LORD
Looking Back Through 38 Years of Practicing Relational Psychoanalysis in Search of Answers to the Question of Interminability STEFANIE SOLLOW GLENNON
Neuropsychoanalysis and the Repressed: Rendering What is Possible in Long-Term Psychotherapy JANE ABRAMS
The Longest Goodbyes: Analysis Everlasting ANTHONY BASS
