Learning from the patient / Patrick J. Casement ; foreword by Robert S. Wallerstein.

(1st work). Originally published: On learning from the patient. London ; New York : Tavistock Publications, 1985.

(2nd work). Originally published: Further learning from the patient. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-378) and index.

Preliminary thoughts on learning from the patient -- Internal supervisor -- Internal supervision: a lapse and recovery -- Forms of interactive communication -- Listening from an interactional viewpoint: a clinical presentation -- Key dynamics of containment -- Analytic holding under pressure -- Processes of search and discovery in the therapeutic experience -- Search for space: an issue of boundaries -- Theory rediscovered -- Beyond dogma -- Interpretation: fresh insight or cliche? -- Child leads the way -- Countertransference and interpretation -- Experience of trauma in the transference -- Meeting of needs in psychoanalysis -- Unconscious hope -- Inner and outer realities -- Trial identification and technique -- Analytic space and process.

"Throughout Europe, Patrick Casement's work on the interactional aspects of the therapeutic process is well known and highly acclaimed. In Casement's lucid treatise, LEARNING FROM THE PATIENT, everything in psychoanalytic theory and technique is up for questioning and for careful testing in the clinical setting; every concept used is explained and illustrated with clinical examples. The author offers an unusual openness about what really happens in the consulting room, including mistakes his own as well as others'. The patient's unconscious contribution to analytic work is fully illustrated. As a result of this approach, insight is arrived at with a rare freshness as theory is rediscovered in the consulting room."--Publisher description.

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