Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Once a journey for self understanding has begun, there is inevitably a struggle against real change. Inner roadblocks on both sides of the couch impede the journey of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and these roadblocks are what the book is about. The pressure to repeat the past in the present, including the attachments to pain and the difficulty of letting go of abusive relations (both internal and external) are enemies of growth and change. These roadblocks (resistances) and the forms they take are explored and illustrated in this book.A Jason Aronson Book

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-09-17
Mått164 x 238 x 22 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagJason Aronson Publishers
ISBN9780765703491

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In this highly readable, richly informative book Jane Hall considers those inner forces in both patient and therapist that can impede the therapeutic action of psychoanlaytic treatment. She emphasizes the complexity of these inner resistances and elaborates on their multiple determinants, particularly on the way in which attachment to pain-inducing caretakers may block the therapeutic path. Through numerous detailed verbatim accounts of interchanges between therapist and patient, she shows how, by drawingon transference and countertransference manifestations, these roadblocks may be understood and modified, even in the treatment of severely troubled patients and even in once or twice-a-week therapy, although not always! Indeed, this volume reminds us ofhow difficult such work can be, how much it demands of the therapist, and how even with the best of efforts, it may be impossible to bring the treatment of certain indivdiuals to as satisfactory a termination as one would hope for. Readers will appreciateMs. Hall's candid accounts of a few of these less than successful therapeutic journeys that she or her colleagues have traveled . Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy should prove to be a valuable resource for experienced practioners as well