Off the Couch

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications

Alessandra Lemma, Matthew Patrick, Alessandra Lemma, Matthew Patrick

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780415476157
• eBook ISBN: 9781136998799
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Angewandte Psychologie

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!

The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to engage patient groups. Chapters address:

• clinical applications in diverse settings across the age range
• the relevance of psychoanalytic thinking to the practice of CBT, psychosomatics and general psychiatry
• the contribution of psychoanalytic thinking to mental health policy and the politics of conflict and mediation.

This book suggests that psychoanalysis has a vital position within the public health sector and discusses how it can be better utilised in the treatment of a range of mental health problems. It also highlights the role of empirical research in providing a robust evidence base.

Off the Couch will be essential reading for those practicing in the field of mental health and will also be useful for anyone involved in the development of mental health and public policies. It will ensure that practitioners and supervisors have a clear insight into how psychoanalysis can be applied in general healthcare.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Off the couch and round the conference table
• Chapter 2 The shock of the real: psychoanalysis, modernity, survival
• Chapter 3 Suicide prevention: the contribution of psychoanalysis
• Chapter 4 Mothers and babies in prison: a psychoanalytic approach supporting attachment
• Chapter 5 Observation, reflection and containment: a psychoanalytic approach to work with parents and children under five
• Chapter 6 Working with traumatised adolescents: a framework for intervention
• Chapter 7 Working with ambivalence: making psychotherapy more accessible to young black people
• Chapter 8 The relevance of applied psychoanalytic practice and thinking to the treatment of medically symptomatic patients
• Chapter 9 Applied analytic work in forensic settings: the understanding and treatment of paedophilia
• Chapter 10 Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: a manualized, psychoanalytic approach to panic disorder
• Chapter 11 Psychiatry and psychoanalysis: a conceptual mapping
• Chapter 12 Cognitive behaviour therapy and psychoanalysis
• Index