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This is a book that assembles and integrates the author's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part 1 focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and explores particular difficulties in technique and thinking. Part 2 addresses the issues of love, hate, and the erotic. In Part 3, specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame are demonstrated in chapters on enactments and on work with an absent patient. Richly illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, above all, the author stresses the importance of the enquiring mind and the struggle not to ""know"" but to be ever ready to ""not know"" and to explore. The book should be of interest to qualified practitioners, to those who are training in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic work, and to anyone who has an interest in psychoanalysis and the ""impossibility of knowing"".

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"""Psychoanalyst Gerrard (London Centre for Psychotherapy) addresses subjectivity and the processing of affective responses by engaged (as vs. computational) analysts who emphasize the need for being human with patients rather than knowing all the answers. Through case examples, chapters examine the difficulties in treating specific types of psychopathology; analytic relationships where love, hate, or the erotic are central; and such special dilemmas as dealing with rescue fantasies, the frequently absent patient, what to charge patients, and publication of clinical material.""-- (04/01/2012) ""A highly original and brave exploration of many issues, including the delicate relation between seduction and love.""--Anne Alvarez, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist ""Being a psychotherapist is endlessly fascinating and endlessly difficult. Gerrard shows her participation in both these states. She has learned from experience and she shares it fruitfully in the instructive and thoughtful chapters in this book.""--Lesley Murdin, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Hon. Fellow ""For those who regret the apparent demise of sexuality in analytic therapy, this collection of papers is a refreshing reminder of the problems therapists face when entering the heat of the Freudian kitchen. The reader will be assisted in charting a course between the twin perils of evasion on the one hand and unthought enactment on the other. Highly recommended.""--David Riley, Fellow ""Jackie Gerrard writes about the complexities and dilemmas that face the psychotherapist, particularly when confronted by aspects of her own unconscious. She recognizes that the real barrier to change can lie within the therapist's own resistance to truths that patients are trying to communicate. Working through these barriers allows her patients to experience mutuality and depth within the relationship.""--David Morgan, Fellow"

""Psychoanalyst Gerrard (London Centre for Psychotherapy) addresses subjectivity and the processing of affective responses by engaged (as vs. computational) analysts who emphasize the need for being human with patients rather than knowing all the answers. Through case examples, chapters examine the difficulties in treating specific types of psychopathology; analytic relationships where love, hate, or the erotic are central; and such special dilemmas as dealing with rescue fantasies, the frequently absent patient, what to charge patients, and publication of clinical material.""-- (04/01/2012) ""A highly original and brave exploration of many issues, including the delicate relation between seduction and love.""--Anne Alvarez, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist ""Being a psychotherapist is endlessly fascinating and endlessly difficult. Gerrard shows her participation in both these states. She has learned from experience and she shares it fruitfully in the instructive and thoughtful chapters in this book.""--Lesley Murdin, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Hon. Fellow ""For those who regret the apparent demise of sexuality in analytic therapy, this collection of papers is a refreshing reminder of the problems therapists face when entering the heat of the Freudian kitchen. The reader will be assisted in charting a course between the twin perils of evasion on the one hand and unthought enactment on the other. Highly recommended.""--David Riley, Fellow ""Jackie Gerrard writes about the complexities and dilemmas that face the psychotherapist, particularly when confronted by aspects of her own unconscious. She recognizes that the real barrier to change can lie within the therapist's own resistance to truths that patients are trying to communicate. Working through these barriers allows her patients to experience mutuality and depth within the relationship.""--David Morgan, Fellow

Jackie Gerrard writes about the complexities and dilemmas that face the psychotherapist, particularly when confronted by aspects of her own unconscious. She recognizes that the real barrier to change can lie within the therapist's own resistance to truths that patients are trying to communicate. Working through these barriers allows her patients to experience mutuality and depth within the relationship. --David Morgan, Fellow For those who regret the apparent demise of sexuality in analytic therapy, this collection of papers is a refreshing reminder of the problems therapists face when entering the heat of the Freudian kitchen. The reader will be assisted in charting a course between the twin perils of evasion on the one hand and unthought enactment on the other. Highly recommended. --David Riley, Fellow A highly original and brave exploration of many issues, including the delicate relation between seduction and love. --Anne Alvarez, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Being a psychotherapist is endlessly fascinating and endlessly difficult. Gerrard shows her participation in both these states. She has learned from experience and she shares it fruitfully in the instructive and thoughtful chapters in this book. --Lesley Murdin, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Hon. Fellow Psychoanalyst Gerrard (London Centre for Psychotherapy) addresses subjectivity and the processing of affective responses by engaged (as vs. computational) analysts who emphasize the need for being human with patients rather than knowing all the answers. Through case examples, chapters examine the difficulties in treating specific types of psychopathology; analytic relationships where love, hate, or the erotic are central; and such special dilemmas as dealing with rescue fantasies, the frequently absent patient, what to charge patients, and publication of clinical material. -- (04/01/2012)

For those who regret the apparent demise of sexuality in analytic therapy, this collection of papers is a refreshing reminder of the problems therapists face when entering the heat of the Freudian kitchen. The reader will be assisted in charting a course between the twin perils of evasion on the one hand and unthought enactment on the other. Highly recommended. --David Riley, Fellow A highly original and brave exploration of many issues, including the delicate relation between seduction and love. --Anne Alvarez, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Jackie Gerrard writes about the complexities and dilemmas that face the psychotherapist, particularly when confronted by aspects of her own unconscious. She recognizes that the real barrier to change can lie within the therapist's own resistance to truths that patients are trying to communicate. Working through these barriers allows her patients to experience mutuality and depth within the relationship. --David Morgan, Fellow Being a psychotherapist is endlessly fascinating and endlessly difficult. Gerrard shows her participation in both these states. She has learned from experience and she shares it fruitfully in the instructive and thoughtful chapters in this book. --Lesley Murdin, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Hon. Fellow Psychoanalyst Gerrard (London Centre for Psychotherapy) addresses subjectivity and the processing of affective responses by engaged (as vs. computational) analysts who emphasize the need for being human with patients rather than knowing all the answers. Through case examples, chapters examine the difficulties in treating specific types of psychopathology; analytic relationships where love, hate, or the erotic are central; and such special dilemmas as dealing with rescue fantasies, the frequently absent patient, what to charge patients, and publication of clinical material. -- (04/01/2012)

Psychoanalyst Gerrard (London Centre for Psychotherapy) addresses subjectivity and the processing of affective responses by engaged (as vs. computational) analysts who emphasize the need for being human with patients rather than knowing all the answers. Through case examples, chapters examine the difficulties in treating specific types of psychopathology; analytic relationships where love, hate, or the erotic are central; and such special dilemmas as dealing with rescue fantasies, the frequently absent patient, what to charge patients, and publication of clinical material. -- (04/01/2012) A highly original and brave exploration of many issues, including the delicate relation between seduction and love. --Anne Alvarez, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Being a psychotherapist is endlessly fascinating and endlessly difficult. Gerrard shows her participation in both these states. She has learned from experience and she shares it fruitfully in the instructive and thoughtful chapters in this book. --Lesley Murdin, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Hon. Fellow For those who regret the apparent demise of sexuality in analytic therapy, this collection of papers is a refreshing reminder of the problems therapists face when entering the heat of the Freudian kitchen. The reader will be assisted in charting a course between the twin perils of evasion on the one hand and unthought enactment on the other. Highly recommended. --David Riley, Fellow Jackie Gerrard writes about the complexities and dilemmas that face the psychotherapist, particularly when confronted by aspects of her own unconscious. She recognizes that the real barrier to change can lie within the therapist's own resistance to truths that patients are trying to communicate. Working through these barriers allows her patients to experience mutuality and depth within the relationship. --David Morgan, Fellow

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