Full Description
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Between Identity and Change reconsiders psychoanalytic psychotherapy for contemporary contexts.This book stems from several years of study and research and aims to offer pragmatic and innovative working tools. The contributors approach psychoanalytic psychotherapy as its own practice with distinctive features and benefits to patients. Each chapter considers the history of the field as well as today's social and cultural context, presenting innovative approaches based on each author's clinical experience. A range of settings and applications, including online therapy, artistic expression, and psychotherapy with personality disorders, are explored.
This book will be of interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
Contents
Note on translation
Author list
Rosa Romano Toscani
Presentation
Manuela Trinci
Foreword
Luigia Cresti, Isabella Lapi
Introduction
1. Luigia Cresti, Antonio Suman
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy between identity and change
2. Luigia Cresti
Non-interpretive therapeutic factors: containing functions in the therapeutic relationship
3. Luigia Cresti (with clinical contributions by E.Di Mauro and G. Mercuriali)
The body in the therapeutic relationship
4. Isabella Lapi
Gestures that touch, actions that heal
5. Stefania Pampaloni, Cristina Pratesi
New territories for the patient. The therapist's dreams
6. Alfredina Fiori, Cristina Pratesi
Patients unable to dream
7. Corrado D'Agostini
Adaptations of technique in the psychotherapy of borderline patients
8. Cristina Diana Canzio
Psychotherapy and artistic expression.
9. Cristina Pratesi
"Directing our caravans to the West". Distance Psychotherapy
10. Antonio Suman
And the door closes. Concluding reflections
