Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, particularly to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to engage patient groups. This book suggests that psychoanalysis has a vital position within the public health sector and discusses how it can be better utilised in the treatment of a range of mental health problems.
Key Features
- Clinical applications in diverse settings across the age range
- The relevance of psychoanalytic thinking to the practice of CBT, psychosomatics, and general psychiatry
- The contribution of psychoanalytic thinking to mental health policy and the politics of conflict and mediation
Additional Information
Off the Couch will be essential reading for those practicing in the field of mental health and will also be useful for anyone involved in the development of mental health and public policies. It will ensure that practitioners and supervisors have a clear insight into how psychoanalysis can be applied in general healthcare. The role of empirical research in providing a robust evidence base is also highlighted.
