Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work elaborates a differential theory of therapeutic engagement with full reference not only to psychoanalysis and to psychotherapy but also – surprisingly – to social work. When contemporary social work with the marginalised achieves mutual constructive collaboration, social workers characteristically notice an unfolding process. Could this correspond to the ‘analytic process’ of psychoanalysis?
Key Features
- Theoretical Explanation: Explains the establishment of a quasi-autonomous therapeutic process.
- Clinical Discussion: Traces the analogous process of creating viable therapeutic engagement.
- Unconscious Introjection: Demonstrates its importance in therapeutic engagement.
- Applicable to Social Work: Highlights that no prior psychological-mindedness is required.
- Relevant to Psychodynamic Counselling: The theory is applicable across multiple therapeutic disciplines.
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Sylvia O’Neill seeks to explain theoretically, and to illustrate clearly in practice, just how a quasi-autonomous therapeutic process becomes established. The theory underpinning the book is Jean-Luc Donnet’s conceptualisation of the establishment of the analytic process in psychoanalysis through introjection of the analytic setting. Donnet designates the psychoanalytic setting as the analytic ‘site’. O’Neill proceeds to trace, by means of detailed clinical discussion, the analogous process by which a viable therapeutic process can become established through created/found discovery and introjection of the relevant ‘site’ or setting in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in social work. Amongst the most important elements are the practitioner’s internalised theoretical principles.
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