ROUTLEDGE ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS 2ND EDITION 2013 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS, SECOND EDITION: ON

TERMINATING PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

PUBLISHER: ROUTLEDGE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/SS6mFA RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.07.27

ISBN: 9780415814065 STORE DATE: 2013

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AUTHOR: HERBERT J. SCHLESINGER



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In this second edition of Endings & Beginnings (Routledge, 2006)

Herbert J. Schlesinger explores endings and beginnings within

psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy; both the obvious main

endings and beginnings of any course in treatment, and the many

little endings and beginnings that permeate analysis. The second

edition contains new chapters including one on transference and

counter-transference as sources of information about the process

of therapy and as sources of difficulty in ending. It deals

especially with the impact of prospective ending on the

therapist, which if not understood and well handled, might

interfere with working through and impede termination, if not

ending itself. Another new chapter deals with the difficulties in

terminating with especially narcissistic patients. One of the

main criticisms against psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies

derived from it is that it lacks criteria for when the patient

has had enough. Herbert J. Schlesinger shows how we may view the

process as a series of episodes each with an ending and possibly

with a new beginning. He presents the way patients signal, even

before they are aware of it, that ending is "in the air," and how

it organizes how they experience the therapy. If alerted, the

therapist can make use of these signals to locate self and

patient in the process. So informed, the therapist is better able

to discern when the therapy should end and help the patient work

through the issues of separation and loss to terminate the

treatment constructively. All patients tend to end

psychotherapy in the way they end all other relationships. In

several chapters on the problems related to severe regression

therapists can learn how to help vulnerable patients, for whom

attachment is problematic, deal with separation

non-traumatically. In Endings & Beginnings 2nd Edition, the

theory of the continuous experience of ending and beginning and

the array of landmarks that parse the clinical process are

distinct advances to the technique of psychoanalysis and the

psychotherapies derived from it. Schlesinger offers many clinical

examples of ending and beginning with their technical problems

and solutions. This contribution to the technique of ending and

beginning psychotherapy electively will be useful to practicing

psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, and to undergraduate and

post-graduate students in clinical psychology, psychiatry and

social work