Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology

by Donna M. Orange

Book Overview

With a unique blend of clinical compassion and philosophical reflection, Donna M. Orange explores the nature and process of psychoanalytic understanding within the intimate and healing context of treatment. Disputing the traditional psychoanalytic emphasis on verbalization, Orange highlights the i]emotional /i] nature of psychoanalytic understanding. Because much of emotional understanding is tacit understanding, it requires the analyst's empathic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572300108
• ISBN13: 9781572300101
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"