This book is of and about psychoanalytic stories. It describes the personal, theoretical, and cultural stories that patients and analysts bring, create, and modify in analytic work. It shows how the joint creation of new life narratives over time results in transformed senses of self and relationship.
Key Features
- Psychoanalytic Stories: Personal, theoretical, and cultural narratives that enhance analytic work.
- Narrative Theory: Flowing from the tradition of narrative theory to recast analytic narratives in social contexts.
- Therapeutic Process: Depicts ongoing therapeutic processes and moments that expand personal scope.
- Teaching Tools: Analytic stories illuminate complex theories, making them practical for therapeutic interactions.
- Range of Emotions: Highlights familiar emotions and human values in psychoanalytic interaction.
Additional Information
The narrative tales in this book address a wide range of history and emotions in both patients and analysts. The patients, fictionalised characters from a lifetime of analytic practice, are protagonists with backgrounds of trauma, loss, relational and geographical dislocation, but also successful adaptations and struggle toward self-development. Some of their stories describe intense short-term work and others long-term analytic relationships. The subjective experience and responses of the analyst are also central parts of the analytic fictions.
The book will be invaluable to readers curious about psychoanalysis, for therapists, and especially for teachers of therapeutic issues and process.
