The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst

Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-89906-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Relational Perspectives Book Series

Psychoanalysts increasingly find themselves working with patients and states that are not amenable to verbal and dialogic engagement. Such patients are challenging for a psychoanalytic approach that assumes that the patient relates in the verbal realm and is capable of reflective function. Both the classical stance of neutrality and abstinence and a contemporary relational approach that works with mutuality and intersubjectivity, can often ask too much of patients.

The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst introduces a new psychoanalytic register for working with such patients and states, involving a present and engaged analyst who is unobtrusive to the unfolding of the patient’s inner world and the flow of mutual enactments. For the unobtrusive relational analyst, the world and idiom of the patient becomes the defining signature of the clinical interaction and process. Rather than seeking to bring patients into greater dialogic relatedness, the analyst companions the patient in the flow of enactive engagement and into the damaged and constrained landscapes of their inner worlds. Being known and companioned in these areas of deep pain, shame and fragmentation is the foundation on which psychoanalytic transformation and healing rests.

In a series of illuminating chapters that include vivid examples drawn from his work with individuals and with groups, Robert Grossmark illustrates the work of the unobtrusive relational analyst. He reconfigures the role of action and enactment in psychoanalysis and group-analysis, and expands the understanding of the analyst’s subjectivity to embrace receptivity, surrender and companioning. Offering fresh concepts regarding therapeutic action and psychoanalytic engagement, The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossmark, Robert

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue; Introduction; Part One: Psychoanalytic Process Chapter 1. The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst Chapter 2. The Flow of Enactive Engagement Chapter 3. Psychoanalytic Companioning Chapter 4. The Eloquence of Action: Unobtrusive Psychoanalytic Companioning and the Growth of Mind and Self Chapter 5. Enactment: The Total Situation Chapter 6. Everything Happens at Once: The Emergence of Symmetric Enactment Chapter 7. The Work of the Narrative and Enactive Co-narration Part Two: Group Analysis Chapter 8. The Edge of Chaos: Enactment, Disruption and Emergence in Group Psychotherapy Chapter 9. Narrating the Unsayable: Enactment and the Creation of Meaning in Group Psychotherapy Chapter 10. The Unobtrusive Relational Group Analyst and Enactive Co-Narration

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Grossmark is a psychoanalyst working with individuals, couples and groups in New York City. He is Adjunct Clinical Professor and Consultant at the The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He teaches at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies; the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at The City College of New York and the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society.