Full Description
Every day, clinicians encounter challenges to empathy and communication while struggling to assist patients with diverse life histories, character, sexuality, gender, psychopathology, cultural, religious, political, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Most writing pertaining to ideas of similarity, discrepancy, and 'the Other' has highlighted differences. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity and Difference: Navigating the Divide offers a different focus, emphasising points of contact, connection, and how divisions between people can be transcended.
In-depth case material, astutely elucidated by diverse theoretical approaches, furnishes stimulating ideas and valuable suggestions for facilitating a meeting of minds and psychological growth in patients who might otherwise be difficult or impossible to engage. Exploring how psychoanalysts can navigate obstacles to understanding and communicating with suffering individuals, topics covered include: internal experience of likeness and difference in the patient; in the analyst; and how analysts can find echoes of themselves in patients.
Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists will appreciate the importance and value of this wide-ranging, groundbreaking exploration of these insufficiently addressed dimensions of human experience.
Contents
Introduction Lori C. Bohm
THE INTERNAL EXPERIENCE OF LIKENESS AND DIFFERENCE IN THE PATIENT
Chapter 1: Identifying/Disidentifying Brent Willock
Chapter 2: Negotiating the Different/Alike Divide in the Treatment of Shame Gladys Guarton
Chapter 3: The Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood in Psychotic Patients and their Families: A Framework for Assessing Recovery Barri Belnap
Chapter 4: Neuroticism is the Way Home Mark Egit
Chapter 5 An Unpublishable Paper Harriette Kaley
THE WORK OF THE THERAPIST TO FIND HIM OR HERSELF IN THE PATIENT
Chapter 6 Reluctance to Finding Myself in the Other: Treating an Alleged Pedophile Susan Kolod
Chapter 7 On Intersubjective Firsts in the Analytic Third: Becoming a Subject in the Presence of the Other Ionas Sapountzis
CULTURAL, RACIAL, AND COGNITIVE/EMOTIONAL DIVIDES
Chapter 8 Our Not-so-hidden Shame: Lack of Ethnic Diversity in the Field of Psychoanalysis John O'Leary
Chapter 9 Finding their way Home: The Struggle of the Australian Aboriginal People to Become One People within One Janice A. Walters
Chapter 10 The Autistic Core in Aboriginal Trauma: Breaking Down or Breaking Out of the Autistic Defence Norma Tracey
Chapter 11 A Bi-Cultural Approach to Working Together: A Conversation about Cultural Supervision Trudy Ake & Sarah Calvert
Chapter 12 Identity amongst Differences: A Personal Account of a Pakeha Psychologist Working in a New Zealand Maori Mental Health Service Ingo Lambrecht
Chapter 13 The Good Son: Psychotherapy with a 65-year-old Man with the Diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome Susan Rose
Chapter 14 Creativity, Identity, and Social Exclusion: Working with Traumatized Individuals Marilyn Charles
INTERNAL EXPERIENCE OF LIKENESS AND DIFFERENCE IN THE THERAPIST
Chapter 15 An autobiographical account of the analysis of an analyst who endured complex childhood trauma Johanna Tiemann
Chapter 16 Same Old Story? Consistency and Change in the Analyst's Work over Time Michael Stern
Chapter 17 The Analyst as Patient: Working from Both Sides of the Divide Emily Fucheck
Chapter 18 The Contrapuntal Play of Paradox: Likeness and Difference in the Theories of Otto Rank Claude Barbre
Conclusions Rebecca Coleman Curtis
