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Author:   Laurence Spurling (Birkbeck College - University of London, London)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 13.80cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781137377104

ISBN 10:   1137377100
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   17 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction PART I:OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT1. The Developing Practitioner 2. What Gets Missed out in Analytic Accounts 3. The Babelization of Psychoanalytic Language 4. Why Theory Does Not Inform Practice PART II: PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE AS A FORM OF CRAFT 5. TheCraft Metaphor 6. Analytic ""Rules"" and Craft Practice 7. Counter-transference and Containment Revisited PART III: DESCRIBING THE CRAFT: EXAMPLES FROM PRACTICE 8. A Session from an Intensive Therapy 9. Two Sessions from a Brief Therapy PART IV: Developing the Craft: Examples from Clinical Discussion, Supervision and Teaching 10. Thinking about Interventions: An Example from a Clinical Discussion Group 11. How Working Models Inform Practice: An Example from a Supervision Group 12. Developing One's Own Way of Working: An Example from Teaching Concluding Remarks"

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'This fascinating window into everyday analytic work makes compelling reading for practitioners in their various roles: as assessors, therapists, supervisors - and patients. Destined to be essential reading for all self-scrutinising psychoanalytic and counselling training programmes.' - Prof Jeremey Holmes MD FRCPsych, University of Exeter, UK

Author Information

Laurence Spurling is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, UK, with overall responsibility for the counselling and psychotherapy programmes at Birkbeck. He is also a consultant adult psychotherapist and works in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is the author / editor of six previous books, including An Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling, now in its second edition.

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