The Psychoanalytic Craft: How to Develop as a Psychoanalytic Practitioner: 3 (Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy) - Softcover

Laurence Spurling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137377100 ISBN 13: 9781137377104

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book identifies and explores what is missing in therapy practice, namely the 'craft' aspects of skilled psychoanalytic work: how theories and models are actually used in practice, what kind of reasoning is employed in conducting a session, and how interventions are composed and evaluated.

The text shows how these features of clinical thinking, which normally operate below the level of awareness, can be identified and explored in clinical practice, in supervision and in teaching. This clear and vividly written book addresses the needs of practitioners and trainees moving beyond beginner level to more skilled and attuned practice.

About this title

About the Author

Laurence Spurling is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Birkbeck College, University of London, a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist in the National Health Service, and a private practice psychotherapist.

From the Back Cover

Why is developing as a psychoanalytic practitioner so often laden with anxiety? A simple answer is that psychoanalytic work is intrinsically complex and difficult. But Laurence Spurling argues traditional accounts of practice make these difficulties even worse for students and practitioners: he shows that case descriptions and examples in psychoanalytic textbooks often give a misleading picture of practice, because they explore what practitioners ought to do rather than what they actually do.

The Psychoanalytic Craft uniquely identifies and explores what is missing in these accounts of therapy, namely the 'craft' aspects of skilled psychoanalytic work: how theories and models are actually used in practice, what kind of reasoning is employed in conducting a session, how interventions are composed and evaluated. The book draws on recent research, as well as the wider craft literature to show how these features of clinical thinking, which normally operate below the level of awareness, can be identified and explored in clinical practice, in supervision and in teaching.

This book has been written specifically for those students and practitioners moving beyond beginner level towards skilled and resourceful practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137377100
• ISBN 13: 9781137377104
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230