Main description:

This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychotherapist, Jonathan Pedder, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues and students with psychoanalytic ways of thinking, encouraging and supporting them in the challenges of contemporary psychiatry. In his work he made the world of psychoanalysis accessible to non-analysts, and this book augments the textbook on psychotherapy which Pedder wrote with Dennis Brown. Pedder was a quiet visionary influential in offering a pathway for mental health workers from many disciplines to find their way to the psychoanalytic ideas that illuminate their patients/clients.'- Professor R. D. Hinshelwood, Author of Clinical Klein and Dictionary of Kleinian Thought

Contents:

About the Author and Editor , Foreword , Editor's introduction , Commentary (GW)* on Chapter One: The role of space and location in psychotherapy, play, and theatre , The role of space and location in psychotherapy, play, and theatre , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Two: Attachment and new beginnings , Attachment and new beginnings , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Three: Failure to mourn and melancholia , Failure to mourn and melancholia , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Four: Fear of dependence in therapeutic relationships , Fear of dependence in therapeutic relationships , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Five: Termination reconsidered , Termination reconsidered , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Six: Reflections on the theory and practice of supervision , Reflections on the theory and practice of supervision , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Seven: A brief history of psychotherapy in the British National Health Service: how can psychotherapists influence psychiatry? , A brief history of psychotherapy in the British National Health Service: how can psychotherapists influence psychiatry? , Commentary (GW) on Chapter Eight: Lines of advance: increasing access to psychoanalytic therapy , Lines of advance: increasing access to psychoanalytic therapy