On learning from the patient / Patrick Casement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the Classic Edition / Andrew Samuels -- Foreword / Dr Arthur Hyatt Williams -- Introduction -- Preliminary Thoughts on Learning From the Patient. -- The 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 -- The Search for Space: An Issue of Boundaries -- Theory Re-discovered -- Appendix I. Knowing and Not-knowing: Winnicott and Bion -- Appendix II. The Issues of Confidentiality and of Exposure by the Therapist.

"On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores the dynamics of the helping relationship - learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in search of. Using many telling clinical examples, he illustrates how, through trial identification, he has learned to monitor the implications of his own contributions to a session from the viewpoint of the patient. He shows how, with the aid of this internal supervision, many initial failures to respond appropriately can be remedied and even used to the benefit of the therapeutic work. By learning to better distinguish what helps the therapeutic process from what hinders it, ways are discovered to avoid the circularity of pre-conception by analysts who aim to understand the unconscious of others."-- Provided by publisher.