When the Garden Isn't Eden

More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-17036-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 224 mm x 148 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Stories can explore complicated ideas and bring shared experiences to life. Footage of the Knicks’ upset win in the NBA finals triggers a traumatic memory of family tragedy. A young girl starts bullying her best friend after her big sister goes off to sleepaway camp. An adolescent works through her feelings of anger at her father over her parents’ divorce after discovering his infidelity. A patient’s ugly shoes remind an analyst of her own childhood scars. A daughter recognizes her Holocaust-survivor father’s resilience as she comes to terms with his vulnerability after a life-altering accident. Bringing together these narratives and many more, When the Garden Isn’t Eden reveals how psychoanalysis sheds light on the troubles of everyday life.

Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness of psychodynamic thinking. Each chapter offers an illustrative and powerful personal vignette followed by an analytical reflection that explicates key psychodynamic concepts, showing how these ideas inform and deepen our understanding of what makes us human. Blending storytelling and psychotherapy, When the Garden Isn’t Eden makes psychodynamic theory vivid and accessible to students, teachers, clinicians, and anyone curious about how therapists work and think.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malawista, Kerry

Adelman, Anne

Kanefield, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Clinical Thoughts
1. When the Garden Isn’t Eden
2. A Visitation
3. One Ping at a Time
4. What Are You Thinking?
5. Three More Days
Part II: Development
6. What Lurks Under the Bed
7. Butterfly Bandage
8. Saving Swifty
9. Betrayal
10. Solid State
Part III: Therapeutic Listening

11. Lost Cat
12. Intoxicating Power
13. Stepping Over the Threshold
14. Ugly Shoes
15. The Limo Ride
Part IV: Transitions and Challenges
16. I Can’t Believe It’s True
17. Mucking the Stall
18. Take Her Blood
19. On Thin Ice
20. Virtual Mourning
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kerry L. Malawista is a training/supervising analyst with the New York Freudian Society and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is cochair of the New Directions Writing Program and founder of the Things They Carry Project.

Linda G. Kanefield teaches and supervises at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her psychology practice is in psychoanalysis and fertility consultation.

Anne J. Adelman is a teaching and training analyst with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, a teaching analyst with the New York Freudian Society, and a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the editor of JAPA Review of Books and cochair of the New Directions Writing Program.

Malawista and Adelman are coauthors of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life (2011) and coeditors of The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013), both from Columbia University Press.