Impossible training : a relational view of psychoanalytic education / Emanuel Berman.
"In Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education, Emanuel Berman describes the complex emotional and organizational dynamics of psychoanalytic training. Placing these issues within the context of major controversies in psychoanalytic history, he shows how generations of st...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hillsdale, NJ :
Analytic Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | Relational perspectives book series.
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| Summary: | "In Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education, Emanuel Berman describes the complex emotional and organizational dynamics of psychoanalytic training. Placing these issues within the context of major controversies in psychoanalytic history, he shows how generations of students have either idealized a "proper analytic identity," which evolves into a persecutory ideal, or rebelled against these standards. Are such persecuting and infantilizing trends inherent in analytic training, he asks, or can psychoanalytic education transcend them through changes in its structure and rules?" "For Berman, the relational and intersubjective trends in contemporary psychoanalysis call for changes in analytic supervision, not least of which is heightened attentiveness to the many relationships that gain expression in the supervisory process. Envisioned in this relational manner, supervision can become a more personal experience, less guarded, and more conducive to the development of a fertile transitional space between supervisor and supervisee. Anchoring his consideration of the present in the controversies of the past, Berman concludes by considering the mission of psychoanalytic educators today: to provide trainees with the resources to cope creatively with the as yet unknown challenges of tomorrow."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Errata slip tipped in. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 279 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0881632759 9780881632750 |