Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy

by Carmel Flaskas, David Pocock

Overview

This book demonstrates how accomplished clinicians can promote the emergence of a richness and creativity that appeals to practitioners of systemic family therapy, not least because of the immediate relevance and usefulness of the ideas. It will be useful to the field of psychotherapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367327279
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Series:	The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Flaskas, Carmel

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword — Introduction — The Unconscious in the System — Narrative, meaning-making, and the unconscious — Working with unconscious processes: psychoanalysis and systemic family therapy — Is there another word for it? Countertransference in family therapy — Interpreting dreams in psychotherapy with couples: moving between the upper and the lower worlds — Emotion and Development — Anger and boredom: unpleasant emotions in systemic therapy — Working with emotional systems: four new maps — Thinking through togetherness: developmental metaphors and systemic thinking — Love and hate and the oedipal myth: the perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic — Dialogue and Otherness — Reflecting processes and reflective functioning: shared concerns and challenges in systemic and psychoanalytic therapeutic practice — In the thick of culture: systemic and psychoanalytic ideas — What does the other want? — Intersecting Levinas and Bion: the ethical container in psychoanalysis and family therapy

Editorial Reviews

"This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured traditions back into dialogue, on new terms. The editors do partisans of both fields a great service in this effort, since their long-standing mutual isolation has kept each dismissive of the other, and ignorant of developments in the other’s field—to their mutual detriment. The book tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. While the strategies are many and varied, the collection as a whole reflects some of the deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best: holding complexity, tolerating contradiction, seeking common ground, seeing past limiting and ideologically driven binaries, thinking and working outside the box, and honouring history and tradition, even while digging it up."

Virginia Goldner

"This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured traditions back into dialogue, on new terms. The editors do partisans of both fields a great service in this effort, since their long-standing mutual isolation has kept each dismissive of the other, and ignorant of developments in the other’s field—to their mutual detriment. The book tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. While the strategies are many and varied, the collection as a whole reflects some of the deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best: holding complexity, tolerating contradiction, seeking common ground, seeing past limiting and ideologically driven binaries, thinking and working outside the box, and honouring history and tradition, even while digging it up."

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