Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2009
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 288
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 28488
- ISBN 13 : 9780415479356
- ISBN 10 : 0415479355
Reviews and Endorsements
The author's detailed descriptions of the clinical process allow the reader to follow the actual process that enables the patient to get into contact with thoughts and feelings of which he or she was previously unconscious or only vaguely aware.
Feldman makes the reader aware of the constant dynamic interaction between the patient and the analyst, each affecting the other. He shows how the analyst has to find a balance between doubt, uncertainty and confusion in himself and through this process may arrive at an understanding of what is happening, and by formulating this understanding the analyst can make a significant contribution to the process of psychic change.