Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071ZHJJ6M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 596 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ellman and Nancy R. Cases present the dramatic encounters between patient and therapist when confronting discovery of the unconscious in the presence of trauma and body pain, along with narrative. Whether working with narrative, trauma or body pain, unconscious fantasy may seem out of reach. Attending to the analyst/ patient process of finding the derivatives of unconscious fantasy offers a potent roadmap for the way psychoanalytic engagement uncovers deep layers of the mind. Finding the unconscious meanings in states of trauma, body expressions, and transference/countertransference enactments becomes part of the therapeutic dialogue between therapists and patients unraveling symptoms and allowing transformations. Chapters in this book bring to life the sufferings and capacities of individual patients with actual verbatim process material demo
Reading this work offers the stimulation and learning that comes from taking part in a seminar with master clinicians. In these engaging remarkably candid contributions, clinicians of diverse theoretical backgrounds offer clinical reports alive in their actuality, each account followed by a dialogue of serious questions and reflections. Ellman, in search of discovering the unconscious fantasies of the clinical cases of body pain and trauma with colleagues from across the globe of analytic thinking."-David Rosenfeld, MD, Ex Vice President IPA, Professor for Buenos Aires University, recipient of Sigourney and Hayman Awards and author of The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria."Character is destiny, and unconscious fantasies form the mind-molding DNA that pattern each pe
She is a Member of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the IPA (COWAP), a Board Member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC) representing CFS, and Visiting Professor at the Sino-American raining Project in Wuhan China. She has written and presented in the areas of female psychology, en