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Further Learning from the Patient: The Analytic Space and Process
Author(s): Patrick Casement (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 6 Sept. 1990
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415054257
- ISBN-13: 9780415054256
Book Description
This sequel to “On Learning from the Patient” looks into the techniques of analysis and psychotherapy and focuses on what happens in the analytic space between analyst and patient. Using many clinical examples, Patrick Casement shows the value of monitoring clinical work from the patient’s point of view as well as the therapist’s. This process of “internal supervision” can teach the therapist new things, such as the patient’s unconscious search for what is needed for emotional health and recovery. Stressing the importance for the therapist of listening attentively to the patient and taking notice of the communication implicit in behaviour, Casement argues that the unconscious is a potentially positive force, which can work constructively with the therapist.
