Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1572300108 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Delineating the philosophical underpinnings of emotional understanding/m-/and illuminating the epistemology of the therapeutic enterprise/m-/this book is enlightening reading for all mental health professionals interested in psychodynamic theory and treatment.. Because much of emotional understanding is tacit understanding, it requires the analyst's empathic participation in the patient's emotional predicament, and attention to the kinds of memories that precede and extend beyond words. With a unique blend of clinical compassion and philosophical reflection, Donna M. Orange explores the nature and process of psychoanalytic understanding within the intimate and healing context of treatment. Disputing the traditional psychoanalytic emphasis on verbalization, Orange highlights the iemotional/i nature of psychoanalytic understanding
Her collaborative model of the treatment process illuminates such bedrock issues as emotional memory, understanding and misunderstanding, and healing. In her perspectival, dialogic, and thoroughly intersubjective vision of psychoanalysis as emotional understanding gained by making sense together,' the old false dichotomy between insight and affective bonding is finally and definitively mended. "In a remarkable and novel way, this book brings together contemporary psychoanalytic theories and clinically relevant aspects of philosophy to answer the question, What is emotional understanding and how is it being communicated?' It is written in a clear and evocative style that reflects the book's message that understanding another can only be attained
Five Stars Thanks.. "brilliant" according to Steve George. am i really the first reviewer of this brilliant text?it's been around for a decade, almost!!anyway, if you are a clinician of whatever orientation or training,you owe it to yourself to read this book.it is dr. orange's wonderful introduction to the world of fallibilismin the theory (and, consequently, the practice) of psychoanalysis (or any psyc. Well worth it. ftryder A rare intersubjectivist who is intelligible and willing to situate important contemporary concepts in an authentic historical context. Acknowledges that old wine in new wineskins simply tastes better. I would recommend this book.