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Melting the Darkness: Dyad and Principles of Clinical Practice
Author(s): Warren S. Poland (Author)
- Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK)
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 1996
- Language: English
- Print length: 328 pages
- ISBN-10: 1568218168
- ISBN-13: 9781568218168
Book Description
Clinician and psychoanalyst Warren S. Poland addresses some of the key questions in the field today. What is an analysis? What is the relationship of the individual patient to the specific analyst and to the work at hand? How can attention to the uniqueness of an individual patient be balanced with the inevitable pressures of the clinical partnership? And, put in the other direction, how can respect for the inevitable imperatives of the dyadic field be balanced with the primacy of the exploration of the patient’s mind? How can the interactive context of clinical work be created without compromising the centrality of the search for meanings derivative from unconscious forces within the patient as a singular individual?. Containing clinical examples, this book should be of interest to anyone interested in psychotherapy.
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From the Back Cover
Starting from common experiences in daily clinical practice rather than from favored theory, Warren S. Poland addresses some of the key questions in the field today. Poland’s organizing question is why each of the two partners, patient ad therapist, behaves as he or she does, how it is that each is pushed toward merger with the other and simultaneously pulled toward separating self-distinction. Solidly rooted in appreciation of the power of unconscious forces, Poland integrates new appreciation of intersubjective engagements and interactions with classical concern for exploration of the unconscious.
