Intricate Engagements: The Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change (Library of Object Relations) - Hardcover

Frankel, Steven A., M.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568215908 ISBN 13: 9781568215907

Verlag: Jason Aronson Publishers, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Intricate Engagements confronts a fundamental challenge of contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. At each clinical moment psychotherapists are flooded with possibilities. To manage this situation they often take refuge in preconceived ideas about psychology and change. Intricate Engagements helps therapists find their way through and out of this maze. Dr. Frankel shows how to chart a course through the moment-to-moment uncertainty of the therapeutic situation in a way that maintains the compelling immediacy and often terrifying intimacy required for two people to influence one another.
As Dr. Frankel demonstrates in a wide-ranging review, the major psychoanalytic theories conflict too much on key points to provide sufficient direction. Research in the field is rudimentary. However, by assessing and comparing these sources, consulting the literature on child development, and undertaking an extensive retrospective study of his own clinical work, Dr. Frankel is able to construct an alternative model.
His theory pictures the mind as consisting of semi-autonomous relationship units with closely linked internalized and current dimensions. Its recommendations for technique emphasize the limitations of a therapist's knowledge and the collaborative effort that is required to move beyond it. Therapist and patient work together to identify a path toward understanding and change. Overall, Dr. Frankel describes a rich, practical, and flexible framework from which to initiate the profound transformation in both patient and therapist that is the goal of psychotherapeutic work.

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Stephen A. Frankel, M.D., has written, taught, and consulted extensively in the areas of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and child development. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he was an NIMH research fellow at Stanford University Medical School and trained in general and child psychiatry at Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Frankel completed his psychoanalytic training in San Francisco, is on the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and is an associate clinical professor at the University of California Medical School. He maintains a private practice in Kentfield, California where he treats adults and children.

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• Verlag: Jason Aronson Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1568215908
• ISBN 13: 9781568215907
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
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