This book considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective: the therapist's mortality-in at least two senses of the word. That the therapist can die, and is also fallible, can be seen as necessary or even defining components of the therapeutic process. At every moment, the analyst's vulnerability and human limitations underlie the work, something rarely openly acknowledged. Covering a broad range of psychoanalytic paradigms, Death and Fallibility in the Analytic Encounter brings fresh understanding of the nature, benefits and pitfalls of psychoanalysis.
This book considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective: the therapist's mortality-in at least two senses of the word. That the therapist can die, and is also fallible, can be seen as necessary or even defining components of the therapeutic process. At every moment, the analyst's vulnerability and human limitations underlie the work, something rarely openly acknowledged. Covering a broad range of psychoanalytic paradigms, Death and Fallibility in the Analytic Encounter brings fresh understanding of the nature, benefits and pitfalls of psychoanalysis.
Ellen Pinsky's articles and reviews have appeared in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, American Imago, Salmagundi, and The Threepenny Review. She is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she was awarded the Deutsch Prize for writing.
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INTRODUCTION I. PHYSIC HIMSELF MUST FADE II. THE POTION III. THE OLYMPIAN DELUSION IV. THE INSTRUMENT V. MIRRORS AND MONSTERS EPILOGUE