The Analysis of Failure
eBook - ePub

The Analysis of Failure

An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Analysis of Failure

An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

About this book

Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of frustration and vexation to clinicians, who aren't always eager to discuss them. Taking the challenge head-on, Arnold Goldberg proposes to demystify failure in an effort to determine its essential meaning before determining its causes. Utilizing multiple vignettes of failed cases, he offers a deconstruction and a subsequent taxonomy of failure, delineating cases that go bad after six months from cases that never get off the ground, mismatches from impasses, failures of empathy from failures of inattention. Commonalities in the experience of failure – conceived as less a misapplication of technique than consequences of a co-constructed yet fraught therapeutic relationship – begin to emerge for scrutiny.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1. Introducing Failure: Who’s the Greatest?
  8. 2. The Failure Project
  9. 3. Facing Failure
  10. 4. Dismissing Failure
  11. 5. Deconstructing Failure
  12. 6. A Taxonomy of Failure
  13. 7. Failure to Launch
  14. 8. Interruptions, Interferences, and Bad Endings
  15. 9. On Losing One’s Patience
  16. 10. Analyzability and Failure
  17. 11. How Does Analysis Fail?
  18. 12. Me and Max*: A Misalliance of Goals
  19. 13. Empathy and Failure*
  20. 14. Rethinking Empathy
  21. 15. Self Psychology and Failure
  22. 16. The Future for Failure
  23. References
  24. Index