Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process
With contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finley, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O'Riely-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro Orozco. Richard G. Erskine is a master clinician who, through more than fifty years of practice, has integrated diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought - self psychology, object relations, transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy - with his client-centered background to form his relationally focused, integrative psychotherapy. Alongside eight colleagues, he presents an authoritative guide on working with the schizoid process. Part I provides an introduction to the schizoid process and an understanding of the concepts and therapeutic interventions required, helpfully illustrated through relevant vignettes that retain the subjective experience of therapist and client. Part II, the heart of the book, contains a longitudinal case study of Allan. This focuses on the narrative of the psychotherapy sessions interwoven with several salient concepts. It is followed by the observations of two colleagues on the process of the psychotherapy. A representation of professional dialogue, which is so central to refining the practice of psychotherapy. Part III looks at the clients' perspective, including a chapter written by a client to provide her personal views on her internal experience of psychotherapy. The final part contains a chapter on the five-year psychotherapeutic journey of a client, Louise. This chapter demonstrates how the theory of the schizoid process is put into therapeutic practice. This is an essential book for all psychotherapists to widen their understanding of therapeutic practice.
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Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process
With contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finley, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O'Riely-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro Orozco. Richard G. Erskine is a master clinician who, through more than fifty years of practice, has integrated diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought - self psychology, object relations, transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy - with his client-centered background to form his relationally focused, integrative psychotherapy. Alongside eight colleagues, he presents an authoritative guide on working with the schizoid process. Part I provides an introduction to the schizoid process and an understanding of the concepts and therapeutic interventions required, helpfully illustrated through relevant vignettes that retain the subjective experience of therapist and client. Part II, the heart of the book, contains a longitudinal case study of Allan. This focuses on the narrative of the psychotherapy sessions interwoven with several salient concepts. It is followed by the observations of two colleagues on the process of the psychotherapy. A representation of professional dialogue, which is so central to refining the practice of psychotherapy. Part III looks at the clients' perspective, including a chapter written by a client to provide her personal views on her internal experience of psychotherapy. The final part contains a chapter on the five-year psychotherapeutic journey of a client, Louise. This chapter demonstrates how the theory of the schizoid process is put into therapeutic practice. This is an essential book for all psychotherapists to widen their understanding of therapeutic practice.
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Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process

Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process

by Richard G Erskine
Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process

Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process

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With contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finley, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O'Riely-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro Orozco. Richard G. Erskine is a master clinician who, through more than fifty years of practice, has integrated diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought - self psychology, object relations, transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy - with his client-centered background to form his relationally focused, integrative psychotherapy. Alongside eight colleagues, he presents an authoritative guide on working with the schizoid process. Part I provides an introduction to the schizoid process and an understanding of the concepts and therapeutic interventions required, helpfully illustrated through relevant vignettes that retain the subjective experience of therapist and client. Part II, the heart of the book, contains a longitudinal case study of Allan. This focuses on the narrative of the psychotherapy sessions interwoven with several salient concepts. It is followed by the observations of two colleagues on the process of the psychotherapy. A representation of professional dialogue, which is so central to refining the practice of psychotherapy. Part III looks at the clients' perspective, including a chapter written by a client to provide her personal views on her internal experience of psychotherapy. The final part contains a chapter on the five-year psychotherapeutic journey of a client, Louise. This chapter demonstrates how the theory of the schizoid process is put into therapeutic practice. This is an essential book for all psychotherapists to widen their understanding of therapeutic practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781800131873
Publisher: Karnac Books
Publication date: 06/15/2023
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard G. Erskine, Ph D, Training Director at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, is a clinical psychologist with five decades of experience in the clinical practice and teaching of psychotherapy. He has specialised in the treatment of severely disturbed children, run a therapeutic community in a maximum security prison, and conducted his psychotherapy practice in New York City specialising in the treatment of obsession, dissociation, narcissism, schizoid processes. In 1972, as a professor at the University of Illinois, Dr Erskine developed the initial concepts of a developmentally based, relationally focused integrative psychotherapy. By 1976 he established the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City and, along with members of the Professional Development Seminars, continued the development, research and refinement of a relational and integrative psychotherapy. Each year Dr Erskine teaches formal courses and experiential workshops on the theory and methods in several countries around the world. He is a licensed psychoanalyst, certified transactional analyst, internationally recognised Gestalt therapist, and a certified group psychotherapist. He is the author of eight books and numerous articles on the practice of psychotherapy. Some of the articles are available on his website.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements About the editor and contributors Foreword Amaia Mauriz Etxabe (Basque Country, Spain) Preface Richard G. Erskine (Canada) Part I: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process   1. The Schizoid Process: An Introduction Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 2. Relational Withdrawal, Internal Criticism, Social Facade: Attunement to Parts of the Self Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 3. Relational Withdrawal, Attunement to Silence: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 4. Engaging with the Schizoid Compromise Ray Little (Scotland) 5. Silence, Withdrawal, and Contact in the Schizoid Process Marye O'Riely-Knapp (USA) 6. Relational Needs and the Schizoid Phenomena Dan Eastop (Ireland) Part II: A Five-Year Case Study and Colleague's Reflections   7. Allan: Depression or Isolated Attachment? Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 8. Allan: Internal Criticism and Shame, Physical Sensations and Affect Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 9. Allan: Isolation, Loneliness, and a Need to be Loved Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 10. Allan: Therapeutic Withdrawal and Painful Memories Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 11. Allan: My Mother's Voice
Psychotherapy of Introjection Richard G. Erskine (Canada) 12. Reflexively exploring the 'therapeutic use of self': A response to Richard Erskine's five-chapter case study of Allan Linda Finley (UK) 13. The Role of Shame in the Development of the Schizoid Process Lynn Martin (UK) Part III: Clients' Perspectives on the Psychotherapy  14. Come closer ... but keep your distance" Leigh Bettles (UK) 15. From Inner Safety to Contact-in-Relationship: Analyzing the Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process Silvia Allari (Italy) and Eugenio Peiro Orozco (Spain) Part IV: Theory into Therapeutic Practice  16. Louise: Social Facade, Depression, Relational Richard G. Erskine (Canada) Index
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