Clinical Dicta and Contradicta: The Therapy Process from Inside Out and Outside in (The Karnac Library)

Espy, John C

ISBN 10: 1782203710 / ISBN 13: 9781782203711

Editore: The Karnac Library, 2015

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• Titolo: Clinical Dicta and Contradicta: The Therapy Process from Inside Out and Outside in (The Karnac Library)
• Editore: The Karnac Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782203710
• ISBN 13: 9781782203711
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Clinical Dicta and Contra Dicta is a series of reflections that the author has pondered in one form or another over the past thirty-five years of practice. Some are more theoretically or philosophically based while the others tend to be more clinically specific.

The book looks at the therapy process from both the inside out and the outside in. The thoughts and brief clinical scenarios that are included are those that the author believes to be of fundamental importance when one considers what one does as a psychotherapist/analyst. They are written to stimulate consideration of their content. Over many years of sitting with patients and supervisers, the author found that the themes represented here kept emerging in one form or another: Are we winsome or loathsome? Are we self-knowing or self-concealing? Psychoanalysis is a psychic pilgrimage, that reveals both the depths of our capacity to love and of our depravity. As these pages suggest, life is not clean and is fraught with temptations to undermine those behaviors which are in our own best interests, the greatest perhaps being those deceptions about what we reveal of who we really are.

Part One explores these dynamics in the form of Laconic adages; Part Two considers contradiction in clinical vignettes; while Part Three examines how serial killers, one of the author's specialized areas of research, use projective-identification to groom and ultimately ensnare their victims. The author's insights here into how a serial perpetrator uses projective-identification are both insightful and compelling.

Recensione

From the author of searing books on serial murder comes a collection of thoughts and pressures brewing during some thirty-five years of practice. It contains showers of insight, dramatic vignettes, and pointed attempts to penetrate the core of psyche and life. The author is touched by streaming impacts on many levels which he shares with the readers, who should prepare themselves for galactic travel in the detailed, down to earth work we do. --Michael Eigen, author of Image, Sense, Infinities, and Everyday Life

This book's slender form belies its hidden depths. Many of John C. Espy's thoughts are so wise they should be inscribed in stone. Every page was a delight, offering a potent blend of wisdom and thought-provoking insights - micro-truths garnered from the consulting room that become universal maxims. It would be an understatement to describe John C. Espy's book as thought provoking. I found myself mulling over his words long after I had finished reading. --Antonino Ferro, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and author of Reveries: An Unfettered Mind