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David Mann (Ed.) - The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma - 9780415433709 - V9780415433709
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The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma

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Description for The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma Paperback. Presents contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect therapeutic practice. This book shows how therapists from different therapeutic orientations are thinking about and working with enactments in therapy. Editor(s): Cunningham, Valerie; Mann, David. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.

The Past in the Present brings together, for the first time, contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect therapeutic practice.

Enactments are often experienced as a crisis in therapy and are understood as symbolic interactions between the client and therapist, where personal issues of both parties become unconsciously entwined. This is arguably especially true if the client has undergone some form of trauma. This trauma becomes enacted in the therapy and becomes a turning point that significantly influences the course of therapy, sometimes with creative or even destructive effect.

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The Past in the Present will be invaluable to practitioners and students of analytic and humanistic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, analytic psychology and counselling.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415433709
SKU
V9780415433709
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About David Mann (Ed.)
David Mann is a consultant psychotherapist for an NHS Trust in Tunbridge Wells and also works in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor. His previous books include: Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship (1997), Erotic Transference and Countertransference (1999), and Love & Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2002). Valerie Cunningham works in private practice as a qualified art psychotherapist and ... Read more

Reviews for The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma
"Mann and Cunningham have brought together a fine collection of clinicians, from diverse backgrounds and both sides of the Atlantic, providing an unprecedented depth and breadth of exploration of enactment. This will be of great importance and interest to seasoned practitioners as well as those in training." – Phil Mollon, Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytic Society; Psychotherapist, Tavistock Society, and Clinical Psychologist, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma


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