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This comprehensive clinical text by Routledge assembles decades of psychotherapeutic work and thinking into three integrated parts. Part 1 examines patients with specific psychopathologies and explores technical and conceptual difficulties in treatment. Part 2 addresses the complex dynamics of love, hate, and erotic transference in therapeutic relationships. Part 3 presents particular challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame, including enactments and work with absent patients. Throughout, the author emphasises the importance of maintaining an enquiring mind and the ongoing struggle to navigate the inherent uncertainties of psychotherapeutic practice. Richly illustrated with clinical vignettes, this book offers experienced practitioners and trainees alike a thoughtful exploration of how psychotherapists can work effectively despite the fundamental limitations of knowing their patients completely.

Key Features

The Impossibility of Knowing integrates clinical work spanning many years of professional psychotherapeutic practice and theoretical development.

Part 1 focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology whilst exploring particular difficulties in technique and thinking with these presentations.

Part 2 addresses the complex issues of love, hate, and the erotic transference that arise within psychotherapeutic relationships.

Part 3 demonstrates specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame through chapters on enactments and clinical work with absent patients.

Throughout the book, rich clinical vignettes illustrate how the enquiring mind helps practitioners navigate fundamental uncertainties in psychotherapy.

This Routledge text emphasises the importance of struggling intellectually with the limitations of knowing in psychotherapeutic practice.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
14 June 2019
Listed Since
26 July 2019

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