Description:
This book wrestles with a theme that confronts every psychotherapist: the gap between illusions and realities about the professional self.
Review Quotes:
"In recommending the first edition of Psychoanalytic Collisions, I wrote that it was "a wise book, a mature book, a book that every psychoanalyst and psychodynamic psychotherapist will profit from reading." That remains true. But now Slochower has added updated clinical material and two new chapters, one a meditation on challenges that led the author to rethink her approach to trauma work, the other a fascinating examination of the role of idealizations, both the analyst's and patient's, on the treatments by Winnicott of Khan and Guntrip. In some ways, you are lucky if you didn't read the first edition of this fine book--because this edition is even better." - Donnel Stern, PhD
"Joyce Slochower's Psychoanalytic Collisions is the rare book that speaks to practitioners across theoretical orientations, levels of experience, and personal sensibilities. This revised edition offers even more humanity and depth than its predecessor; the descriptions of patients and therapeutic collaborations exemplify the emotional honesty for which its author is well known. Seasoned therapists should read it for its nuanced exploration of their world. Beginners should read it for its orienting wisdom - and then read it again in ten years." - Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, USA