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Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers of Michael Feldman

Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers of Michael Feldman

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Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0415479355
ISBN13: 9780415479356
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 2 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction unfolds within a session. In doing so, he develops some of the implications of the important pioneering work of such analysts as Klein, Rosenfeld and Joseph, showing in fine detail some of the ways in which the patient feels driven to communicate to the analyst, not only in order to be understood by him, but also in order to affect him.

The author's detailed descriptions of the clinical process allow the reader to follow the actual process that enables the patient to get into contact with thoughts and feelings of which he or she was previously unconscious or only vaguely aware.

Feldman makes the reader aware of the constant dynamic interaction between the patient and the analyst, each affecting the other. He shows how the analyst has to find a balance between doubt, uncertainty and confusion in himself and through this process may arrive at an understanding of what is happening, and by formulating this understanding the analyst can make a significant contribution to the process of psychic change.

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