Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Relational Analysis Interminable

by Susan A. Lord (Editor)

Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explores how relational analysts think about and pursue long-term therapeutic relationships in their practices. Many therapists work intensively with their clients over many years and don't necessarily talk about their work. More exploration is needed into what is taking place inside of these long-term relationships. The chapters cover a range of topics that focus on aspects of the therapeutic relationship that are unique to long-term psychoanalytic work. They include work with various issues such as trauma, death and dying, cross-cultural issues, suffering, mourning, neuropsychoanalysis, unique endings, attachment, intimacy, and the many ways in which therapists change along with their clients as they go through life stages together. Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychodynamic psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, workers in other mental health fields, graduate students, and anyone who is interested in change processes.

Genres: Psychoanalysis

190 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2019

About the author

Susan Lord, Ph.D., LICSW is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Social Work Department at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Adjunct Faculty at Smith College School for Social Work, and past Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Therapy, a Taos Institute Associate, and is in private practice in York, Maine. (Source: Amazon.com)