The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter

by James T. McLaughlin and James McLaughlin

Book Overview

Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we fashion meaningful lives. His unique, iconoclastic perspective, which challenged the conventions of his time and professional milieu, not only engages the creative tension between the stance of the analyst and the stance of the healer, but also contains striking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113800586X
• ISBN13: 9781138005860
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"