The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning

by Robert Grossmark

Psychoanalysts increasingly find themselves working with patients and states that are not amenable to verbal and dialogic engagement. Such patients are challenging for a psychoanalytic approach that assumes that the patient relates in the verbal realm and is capable of reflective function. Both the classical stance of neutrality and abstinence and a contemporary relational approach that works with mutuality and intersubjectivity, can often ask...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138899054
• ISBN13: 9781138899056
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"