The Impossibility of Knowing

Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Mental Health
Cover of the book The Impossibility of Knowing by Jackie Gerrard, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jackie Gerrard ISBN: 9780429921049
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: May 8, 2018
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Jackie Gerrard
ISBN: 9780429921049
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: May 8, 2018
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

This is a book that assembles and integrates the author's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part 1 focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and explores particular difficulties in technique and thinking. Part 2 addresses the issues of love, hate, and the erotic. In Part 3, specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame are demonstrated in chapters on enactments and on work with an absent patient. Richly illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, above all, the author stresses the importance of the enquiring mind and the struggle not to "know" but to be ever ready to "not know" and to explore. The book should be of interest to qualified practitioners, to those who are training in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic work, and to anyone who has an interest in psychoanalysis and the "impossibility of knowing".

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This is a book that assembles and integrates the author's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part 1 focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and explores particular difficulties in technique and thinking. Part 2 addresses the issues of love, hate, and the erotic. In Part 3, specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame are demonstrated in chapters on enactments and on work with an absent patient. Richly illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, above all, the author stresses the importance of the enquiring mind and the struggle not to "know" but to be ever ready to "not know" and to explore. The book should be of interest to qualified practitioners, to those who are training in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic work, and to anyone who has an interest in psychoanalysis and the "impossibility of knowing".

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Micropolitics in Contemporary China by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Sex Is Not A Natural Act & Other Essays by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Integrated Pollution Control by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book The Arts and the Legal Academy by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Myths and Legends from Korea by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Media Power, Professionals and Policies by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Alternative Arrangements for Marine Fisheries by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism and Piracy by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book The Fantasy Sport Industry by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book The Presence of the Past by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Imagining Organizations by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Mediating the Human Body by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book Corporate Venture Capital by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book English Grammar by Jackie Gerrard
Cover of the book In a Lonely Street by Jackie Gerrard
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy