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The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening to the Subtextoutlines the core concepts that frame the reciprocal encounter between psychoanalytic therapist and patient, taking the reader into the psychoanalytic therapy room and giving detailed examples of how the interaction between patient and therapist takes place. The book argues that the therapist must capture both nonverbal affects and un-symbolised experiences, proposing a distinction between structuralised and actualised affects and covering key topics such as transference, countertransference and enactment. It emphasizes the unconscious meaning in the here-and-now, as well as the need for affirmation to support more classical styles of intervention. The book integrates object relational and structural perspectives, in a theoretical position called relational oriented character-analysis. It argues the patient's ways-of-being constitute relational strategies carrying implicit messages - a "subtext" - and provides detailed examples of how to capture this underlying dialogue. Packed with detailed clinical examples and displaying a unique interplay between clinical observation and theory, this wide-ranging book wi

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Author

Gullestad, Siri, Killingmo, Bjørn

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429431425

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Philosophy