ABSTRACT
All of life can be a resource for our learning. In his fourth and most personal book, Patrick Casement attempts to understand what he has learned from life, sharing a wide range of those experiences that have helped shape the analyst he has become.
Patrick Casement shares various incidents in his life to demonstrate how these helped lay a foundation for his subsequent understanding of psychoanalysis. These examples from his life and work are powerful and at times very moving, but always filled with hope and compassion.
This unique book gives a fascinating insight into fundamental questions concerning the acquisition of analytic wisdom and how personal experiences shape the analyst's approach to clinical work. It will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
part |160 pages
Development
chapter |15 pages
Learning from life 1
chapter |24 pages
An emerging sense of direction
chapter |26 pages
Finding a place for theory
chapter |14 pages
Learning to say ‘No'
chapter |14 pages
Hate and containment 1
chapter |20 pages
Samuel Beckett's relationship to his mother tongue 1
chapter |12 pages
Mourning and failure to mourn 1
chapter |19 pages
Internal supervision in process: a case presentation
chapter |14 pages
Developing clinical antennae
part |38 pages
Reflections