Main description:

In the face of considerable scepticism over the function and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, Lena Ehrlich demonstrates how analysis is unique in its potential to transform patients at an emotionally cellular level by helping them access and process long-standing conflicts and traumatic experiences.

Using detailed clinical vignettes, the author illustrates that when analysts practice from the inside out, i.e. consider that external obstacles to initiating and deepening an analysis inevitably reflect analysts' fears of their internal world and of intimacy, they become better able to speak to patients' long-term suffering.

This book, free from psychoanalytic jargon, stands out in its ability to help readers feel more effective, confident, and optimistic about practicing psychoanalysis by providing insights and recommendations about beginning and deepening analysis and sustaining oneself as an analyst over time. It will appeal to both beginners and experienced analysts, as well as supervisors, educators, and those interested in the workings of their minds and in building more intimate relationships.

Contents:

Introduction: Why Practice Psychoanalysis? Part I: Finding Ourselves as Analysts 01. The Analyst's Reluctance to Begin a New Analysis 02. Analysis Begins in the Analyst's Mind: Conceptual and Technical Considerations on Recommending Analysis 03. Finding Control Cases and Maintaining Immersion: Turning Challenges into Opportunities Part II: Developing the Capacity to Deepen an Analysis 04. Continuing and Deepening an Analysis 05. Teleanalysis: Slippery slope or Rich Opportunity? Part III: Sustaining the Capacity to Listen and Intervene Analytically 06. Maintaining an Analytic Mind and the Confidence and Desire to Practice Psychoanalysis 07. It Takes Three to Know One: On Receiving and Providing Consultation Epilogue: Looking Inward and Forward