Main description:

The first title in the Practice of Psychotherapy Series that explores the limits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Each of the five chapters in this book takes up an aspect of this challenge. In an open and enquiring manner, the authors invite readers to share in their thinking as they describe how they use their psychoanalytic skills to understand the nature of particular challenges. The Practice of Psychotherapy Series is intended to address a wide variety of important and challenging issues confronting those working in diverse contexts as psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Written by members of the respected London Centre for Psychotherapy, this volume offers an honest and stimulating first contribution.

Contents:

The London Centre for Psychotherapy , Preface , When we counsel, when we analyse, when we therap , Exploring once-a-week work , Singular attention , Has anyone seen the baby? Analytic psychotherapy with mothers who are postnatally depressed and their babies , The duty to care and the need to split