Contemporary Clinical Practice The Holding Environment Under Assault [Paperback]

Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process. State-of-the-art psychodynamic theories will be applied to the understanding of how war, terrorism, politics, government regulations, and other environmental problems influence interactions between clinicians and their patients.This book applies state-of-the-art psychodynamic theories to the understanding of how war, terrorism, politics, government regulations and other contemporary environmental problems influence interactions between clinicians and their patients.The World Outside:?Its Impact On The Treatment Setting.- The Erosion of the Sociopolitical Holding Environment and The Collapse of the Potential Space for Creative Repair.- Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair vs. Attachment and Reorganization.- Integrating the Internal and External Worlds of Clinical Social Work:?A Philosophical and Political Search.-Virtual Intimacy in the Therapeutic Space: Help or Hindrance?-What Happens to Confidentiality When the Government Enters the Treatment Room via The Patriot Act, HIPPA, and Managed Care?-A Perfect Storm: The Influence of Outside Forces on Social Work Education.- Considerations for Psychoanalytic Treatment in a Time of War.- Real Experiences Revisited:?The Significance of Attachment, Separation and Loss in Adult Psychotherapy.- On Being at the Margins: The Loss of Dissidence in Psychoanalysis.

Ongoing wars, a sinking economy, growing inequitiesmore than ever, the outside world leaves a large footprint on patients psyches. Not surprisingly, therapists are experiencing increased tension between sociopolitical realities, the inner world of the treatment hour, and their own anxieties, training, and ethics. How does one maintain trust and authenticity? Should the concept of therapeutic neutrality still apply at a time of widespread societal trauma and grief?&lse