"`Most accounts of a patient's experience in analysis are autobiographical and, therefore, highly selective for good and bad. Finally, here is a level-headed account from sensitive interviews that explore patients' experiences on the couch. This is a beautiful report of a qualit…
What do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients' psychoanalytic experiences "from the couch". Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher's voice, whilst underutilizing the rich published accounts of patients' own stories. Thus ve…
The prenatal theme in psychotherapy
by ebrary, Inc, Ployé, Philippe, Piontelli, Alessandra
"For much of its history, psychoanalysis has been strangely silent about sudden ruptures in the analytic relationship and their immediate and far-reaching effects for those involved. Such issues of betrayal and abandonment, the death of an analyst, a patient's suicide, an ethica…
"For much of its history, psychoanalysis has been strangely silent about sudden ruptures in the analytic relationship and their immediate and far-reaching effects for those involved. Such issues of betrayal and abandonment, the death of an analyst, a patient's suicide, an ethica…
