ABSTRACT
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically with complex and disturbed patients in a range of contexts.
The book is presented in six parts, each introduced with commentary that puts the material into context. It covers a range of topics including autism, violence and perversion, psychosomatics, hysteria, dementia, psychosis and assessment of gender dysphoria. Each chapter presents either a single case study or a selection of case vignettes, examines necessary context and presents additional detail about subsequent treatment. The depth and range of the cases presented provide key insight into and detailed consideration of risk assessment, safe settings and other important preliminary issues.
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and other clinicians seeking an introduction to psychoanalytic work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |7 pages
Clinical psychoanalytic case studies with complex patients
part one|18 pages
Support
chapter Chapter 1|16 pages
‘I'm beyond caring’ 1
part two|39 pages
Autism
chapter Chapter 2a|7 pages
Affect, words and play in autistic children 1
chapter Chapter 2b|11 pages
‘Finding one's feet’ 1
chapter Chapter 3|19 pages
Analysing Miss Daisy
part three|36 pages
Psychosomatics and hysteria
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
Maternal lineage and transgenerational trauma
chapter Chapter 5b|5 pages
Hysteria and mourning – A psychosomatic case 1
part four|13 pages
Psychosis
part five|41 pages
Identity
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Finding space to think
chapter Chapter 8a|3 pages
Dementia
part six|43 pages
Perversion and violence