Talking with Patients: A Self Psychological View of Creative Intuition and Analytic Discipline [Hardcover]

In the twelve years since the first edition ofTalking With Patientswas published, contributions from relational psychoanalysis and from neuroscience have been integrated into much of the work done by self psychologists. The relational focus on the impact of the treatment relationship on the psychoanalytic process, while implicit in self psychology, is made explicit in this new edition.

Additionally, the concept of implicit memory, a contribution from neuroscience, has opened the door to new ways of understanding and dealing with patients who were severely abused as children. In the second edition ofTalking with Patients, the author discuss how we are guided by non-verbal cues as much as by verbal ones, and continues to expand on the idea that therapists learn how to do therapy as much from their patients as from supervisors or theories.

In Talking with Patients, Sanford Shapiro, like the best of mentors, takes his readers along with him as he recounts his own experience in learning to be a therapist, psychoanalyst, and supervisor. Each experience of learning theory and therapeutic approach is explained through richly informative clinical examples. Shapiro has mastered the art of presenting complex concepts (ego psychology, self psychology, intersubjectivity, control mastery, and relational theories) in language that is deceptively simple and easy to comprehend. Joseph Lichtenberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy a

The revised edition ofTalking with Patients: A Self Psychological View of Creative Intuition and Analytic Disciplineis a gem of a book....The author's voice, resonant with compassion, empathy and intuition, mirror l(