Authenticity In The Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work Of Irma Brenman Pick (the New Library Of Psychoanalysis)
by Irma Brenman Pick /
2018 / English / PDF
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Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter brings
together Irma Brenman Pick’s original contributions to
psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition,
she produces vivid clinical narratives that succeed in shedding a
humane light on the struggles that patients – and, indeed, all of
us – face in recognising, in an authentic way, our need for, and
the contribution of, others in our lives.
brings
together Irma Brenman Pick’s original contributions to
psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition,
she produces vivid clinical narratives that succeed in shedding a
humane light on the struggles that patients – and, indeed, all of
us – face in recognising, in an authentic way, our need for, and
the contribution of, others in our lives.
Brenman Pick is interested in the infantile antecedents of
conflict in her patients, and the book demonstrates the attention
needed to sense how these may be present in the patient’s
clinical material. This involves an ability to understand the
complex and sophisticated unconscious phantasies that are alive
in the patient’s mind. She combines this with a creative clinical
imagination that allows her to address these expertly in the
here-and-now of the analytic encounter. A particular feature of
this is the way Brenman Pick uses the analyst’s
countertransference to bring in ways in which the struggle over
authenticity also extends to the analyst. The focus on
authenticity runs through the book and brings an interesting and
original perspective to the topics discussed, which include
adolescence, sexual identity, stealing and its relationship to
the acknowledgement of dependency, the experience of uncertainty,
concern for the object, destructiveness, creativity and the
striving towards integration.
Brenman Pick is interested in the infantile antecedents of
conflict in her patients, and the book demonstrates the attention
needed to sense how these may be present in the patient’s
clinical material. This involves an ability to understand the
complex and sophisticated unconscious phantasies that are alive
in the patient’s mind. She combines this with a creative clinical
imagination that allows her to address these expertly in the
here-and-now of the analytic encounter. A particular feature of
this is the way Brenman Pick uses the analyst’s
countertransference to bring in ways in which the struggle over
authenticity also extends to the analyst. The focus on
authenticity runs through the book and brings an interesting and
original perspective to the topics discussed, which include
adolescence, sexual identity, stealing and its relationship to
the acknowledgement of dependency, the experience of uncertainty,
concern for the object, destructiveness, creativity and the
striving towards integration.
These contributions will prove invaluable to psychoanalysts,
psychotherapists and other mental health professionals interested
in deepening their understanding of the complex relationships
that can arise in the consulting room.
These contributions will prove invaluable to psychoanalysts,
psychotherapists and other mental health professionals interested
in deepening their understanding of the complex relationships
that can arise in the consulting room.
