Clinical Dicta and Contra Dicta: The Therapy Process from Inside Out and Outside In
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2016
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 122
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 37576
- ISBN 13 : 9781782203711
- ISBN 10 : 1782203710
About the Author(s)
John C. Espy, PhD, LCSW, has been practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for the past thirty-five years. He was supervised by R.D. Laing for many years and conducted a weekly supervision group with Sheldon Kopp. He has worked extensively in the area of primitive and psychotic personalities and has interviewed more than twenty serial murderers and pedophiles in the United States and Europe as part of his research on the manifestation of malignant projective-identification. His current practice primarily focuses on clinical and forensic consultation and long term treatment. He was previously a neurotoxicologist with NASA and has taught at numerous universities throughout the United States. Dr Espy is also a long standing member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and northwestern United States group moderator for the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.