Fostering Healing and Growth

A Psychoanalytic Social Work Approach

Joyce Edward, Jean Sanville

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Year: 1996
• eBook ISBN: 9781461628552
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Wherever contemporary therapists offer treatment, whether in social agencies or clinics, in outpatient or inpatient services, or even in private practice, they are likely to find themselves increasingly working with people whose histories are characterized by deprivation and repeated trauma–experiences that have left them feeling damaged, often short of basic trust in others, and lacking confidence in themselves. These people have tended to be seen as beyond the pale for psychoanalytically oriented treatment. The contributors to this volume would disabuse us of such a prejudiced opinion. They proceed to demonstrate the enormous value of psychodynamic perspectives with a varied clientele, many of whom in the past might have been deemed "untreatable." And they do this by sharing with readers the stories of their attempts to work with persons of diverse cultural, ethnic, and racial groups who come with complaints that point to severe psychopathologies.
In each of the twenty-three stories, we are afforded a glimpse of the two actors in the drama as they meet and size up one another, negotiate and renegotiate their agreement to collaborate, work through and play through the shifting positive and negative transferences and countertransferences toward a working relationship, experience both frustrations and triumphs as they persevere in attempts to promote healing and growth. These are exciting narratives, documenting the ethic that underlies the psychoanalytic vision and the animation that it affords both participants.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction from the President of the National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis
• Introduction from the Founding Chair of the National Study Group on Social Work and Psychoanalysis
• Prelude
• 1 Applying Psychoanalytic Principles to Social Work Practice: An Historical Review
• 2 Listening, Hearing, and Understanding in Psychoanalytically Oriented Treatment
• 3 Transference: A Key to Psychoanalytic Social Work
• 4 A Clinical View of the Use of Psychoanalytic Theory in Front-Line Practice
• 5 The Good-Enough Social Worker: Winnicott Applied
• 6 From Holding to Interpretation
• 7 The Beginning Phases of Treatment of the Schizoid Disorder of the Self: A Developmental, Self, and Object Relations Perspective
• 8 Maria’s Second Chance: Resolving Oedipal Conflict in the Transference
• 9 The Use of the Telephone as a Transitional Space in the Treatment of a Severely Masochistic Anorexic Patient
• 10 Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Problems and Concerns
• 11 The Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Linking Inner and Outer World
• 12 Working with Dreams of Survivors of Violence: Facilitating Crisis Intervention with a Psychoanalytic Approach
• 13 A Psychoeducational-Psychodynamic Approach to the Treatment of Drug Addicts
• 14 Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy with the HIV-Infected Person
• 15 Leaking Walls—A Tale of the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Reading of a Case of Post-Partum Depression as Seen through the Perspective of Ignacio Matte-Blanco
• 16 The Child Therapist and the Child’s Parents: A Precarious Alliance Viewed from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
• 17 From Parental Failure to Foster Parent: Facilitating Development in the Life Cycle
• 18 Psychoanalysis and the World of Two: Object Relations Couple Therapy
• 19 Ending Where the Client Is: A Psychodynamic Approach to Forced Terminations
• 20 In Defense of Long-Term Treatment: On the Vanishing Holding Environment
• 21 Clinical Supervision: Its Role in “Containing” Countertransference Responses to a Filicidal Patient
• 22 Collaboration between Psychoanalysis and Social Work Education
• Postlude
• Glossary
• Bibliography: Related Clinical Social Work Writings
• Index