Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work

Editor : Anne Zachary

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Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : October 2023
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 206
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Category 2 :
Individual Psychotherapy
Catalogue No : 97498
ISBN 13 : 9781032065564
ISBN 10 : 1032065567

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Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically with complex and disturbed patients in a range of contexts.

The book is presented in six parts, each introduced with commentary that puts the material into context. It covers a range of topics including autism, violence and perversion, psychosomatics, hysteria, dementia, psychosis and assessment of gender dysphoria. Each chapter presents either a single case study or a selection of case vignettes, examines necessary context and presents additional detail about subsequent treatment. The depth and range of the cases presented provide key insight into and detailed consideration of risk assessment, safe settings and other important preliminary issues.

Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and other clinicians seeking an introduction to psychoanalytic work.

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Clinical work is at the heart of the many-faceted creature we call psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is full of ideas, and ideas about psychoanalytic ideas, its meta-psychology. But again, and again its abstractions need to be earthed in the actual practice of psychoanalytic encounters between analysts and patients. It is this real, human encounter which contains, ultimately, the most moving, interesting and important dimensions of psychoanalysis, nowhere more so than when analysts are challenged by human cases which are enormously difficult to engage with and understand. Often psychoanalysis is the last chance for highly disturbed patients, which ups the ante for patient and analyst alike. Anne Zachary has, therefore, done us all an immense favour in putting together this book of expert clinical work with complex cases, a book that will inform and inspire many different types of readers - patients, analysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, all mental health workers, and those who are simply interested in psychoanalysis and the human spirit. I endorse the book whole-heartedly.
Francis Grier, Training Analyst & Supervisor, British Psychoanalytic Society, Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic Clinical Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work edited by Anne Zachary includes a wide spectrum of difficult to treat cases. If you buy this book you will learn about the tragic consequences of the tensions between management in NHS trusts and the front-line clinical personnel. Three chapters convey the hard-won understanding that emerges in the treatment of autistic children and adults. The psychosomatic and hysterical reactions to intergenerational trauma feature in another chapter. The reader will be able to follow the analysis of interlocking psychopathologies within a parental couple that enabled the father to move away from longstanding psychotic functioning. The technical difficulties of working with patients who present with gender dysphoria are examined in another chapter. This book will take the reader through the differential diagnosis of the underlying diseases that contribute to dementia, and a treatment that acknowledged the demented patient’s pain and insight. The reader will also learn about psychoanalytic work with patients who exercise ruthless and/or sadistic violence, and how the clinicians managed their anxieties when working with these patients. I strongly recommend this honest, straightforward book about the disturbing emotional, intellectual and clinical realities encountered when working psychoanalytically with complex patients.
Donald Campbell is a Distinguished Fellow, Training Analyst and Past President of the British Psychoanalytic Society

The essence of nurture
Foreword by Bob Hinshelwood
Clinical psychoanalytic case studies with complex patients: watching experience at work
Anne Zachary

PART ONE - SUPPORT
1. ‘I’m beyond caring’: a response to the Francis Report: the failure of social systems in healthcare to adequately support nurses and nursing in the clinical care of their patients
Marcus Evans

PART TWO – AUTISM
2a. Affections, words and plays in autistic children: discussion of Maria Rhode's clinical case
Laurent Danon-Boileau

2b. 'Finding one’s feet': body, affect and identifications in a pre-autistic toddler learning to walk
Maria Rhode

3. Analysing Miss Daisy: a psychoanalytically informed treatment of an emerging adult autistic woman
Alan Sugarman

PART THREE - PSYCHOSOMATICS AND HYSTERIA
4. Maternal lineage and transgenerational trauma: time and space in the psychoanalytic encounter
Louise Gyler

5a. Hysteria and mourning: a psychosomatic case
Jonathan Sklar

5b. Hysteria and mourning – a psychosomatic case: discussion of of Jonathan' Sklar's chapter
Susan Loden

PART FOUR - PSYCHOSIS
6. Psychoanalysis, psychosis and the family
Brian Martindale

PART FIVE - IDENTITY
7. Finding space to think: technical problems of working with a cohort of trans identified young women　
Marcus Evans

8a. Dementia: prelude to Rachael Davenhill's clinical material from elderly patients
Martin Rossor

8b. Dynamics of dementia
Rachael Davenhill

PART SIX - PERVERSION AND VIOLENCE
9. A state of inbetweenness: the challenges of working with disavowal
Stephen Blumenthal

10. Aspects of the process of child analysis
Angela Joyce

11. Peter rabbit was a thief: a case with a background of violence and criminality
Anne Zachary

About the Editor(s)

Dr Anne Zachary is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has had a thriving psychoanalytic practice for nearly thirty years. Her NHS training in psychotherapy was at the Cassel Hospital, London, and afterwards she spent eighteen months in a locum consultant post at the Maudsley hospital. From 1988 - 2010 she worked part-time as an NHS consultant at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, specializing in sexual perversion, violence and delinquency. During this time she was also seconded at different times to various medium secure settings and for five years (2003 – 2008) to the high secure setting, Broadmoor Hospital.

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