Field Perspectives in Clinical Practice

A Dialogue between Relational Psychoanalysis, Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, and Gestalt Therapy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98145-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

This book is the outcome of a fruitful dialogue between relational psychoanalysis, neo-Bionian psychoanalysis, and Gestalt therapy on a contemporary growing edge of clinical practice: field theory.

What is happening in contemporary clinical practice that seems to be pushing theories towards a field perspective? Clinical issues are complex phenomena—they cannot be separated from social and cultural changes. Suffering, clients, and therapists change over time, and with them so do the needs and theoretical approaches of clinical professionals, so as to be able to update and adjust care practices.

This book is an independent, yet common study, which through the field concept explores what complexity theories and dynamic systems theories have described as “emerging phenomena,” or what phenomenological philosophy categorized as phenomenal field, pathic aesthetics, and atmospherology, or, more generally, our understanding of the relationship between clinical practice and critical thinking and of the centrality of the individual, as developed by postmodern thinkers.

With multiple professional perspectives and essential clinical material, this is key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Francesetti, Gianni

Gecele, Michela

Migone, Paolo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Working in the Interpersonal Field: Two Clinical Narratives  2. Field Perspective in Relational Psychoanalysis. Response to Donnel Stern  3. Post-Bionian Field Theory and the Ethical Refounding of Psychoanalysis  4. Field Perspective in Gestalt Therapy. Is a Dialogue Possible with Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis?  5. “Where Everything Shivers and Speaks.” Precious Fragments of Experience  6. “Necessary Light that Makes Me the Chosen Host.” Field Theories in Gestalt Therapy and Clinical Practice  7. Discussion for Gianni Francesetti and Michela Gecele   8. Anna. A Clinical Case Study  9. Affects and Dissociative Field. Discussion of the Clinical Case by Paola Zarini  10.  Anna KO.  11.  “We Wish You a Good Life, Anna!” A Field-Theory-Informed View of Gestalt Therapy.  12. What We See and Do Depends on the Point from Where We Look  13. Field and Psychotherapy: Attempting a New Paradigm  14. Historical Remarks on the Relationship between Gestalt Therapy and Psychoanalysis

Über Autor(innen)

Gianni Francesetti, M.D., is a Psychiatrist, Gestalt psychotherapist, Adjunct Professor at the Dep. Psychology, University of Turin (Italy), international trainer and supervisor, co-director of IPSIG and of the Turin School of Psychopathology, co-founder of IG-FEST.

Michela Gecele, M.D., is a Psychiatrist and Gestalt psychotherapist. She formerly coordinated, in Turin, a psychological and psychiatric service for immigrants. International trainer and supervisor, co-director of IPSIG and of the Turin School of Psychopathology, co-founder of IG-FEST.

Paolo Migone, M.D., is editor of the Italian journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane (Psychotherapy and the Human Sciences), co-chair of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group, and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and of Psychological Issues. He founded the Italian chapters of SPR.