Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible

by Frank Summers

Book Overview

"Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change them attests, has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on the integrative object relations model set forth in Transcending the Self (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" in order to elaborate a fresh clinical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881633968
• ISBN13: 9780881633962
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.6"