Psychodynamic Approaches in Health and Social Care

Applying Classic Psychoanalytic Work to Contemporary Settings

Shelly Allen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040650417
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Psychodynamic Approaches in Health and Social Care sees experienced psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and educationalists analyse classic psychoanalytic papers and accessibly apply them to contemporary health and social care settings.

In each chapter, practitioners and educators analyse a classic paper to support a better understanding of and resolution to the complex, pervasive and multi-faceted challenges facing contemporary health and social care provision. The papers include works from some of psychoanalysis' most important thinkers.

The novel approach in this book will make for an illuminating read for those working in health and social care settings with limited prior knowledge of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches and for practising analysts and therapists looking to apply their knowledge in contemporary health and social care.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 ‘Remembering, Repeating and Working Through’ (Freud, 1914): Promoting curiosity and remaining engaged
• 2 ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (Freud, 1917) in contemporary health and social care
• 3 Making space in health and social care for ‘Hate in the Counter-Transference’ (Winnicott, 1949)
• 4 To be or not to be detached or emotionally involved – that is the question of Heimann’s ‘On Counter-Transference’ (1950)
• 5 The unspoken in health and social care meetings: ‘Group Dynamics: A Re-View’ (Bion, 1952)
• 6 Leading, following and mentoring through the lens of ‘Envy and Gratitude’ (Klein, 1957)
• 7 How ‘Our Adult World and Its Roots in Infancy’ (Klein, 1959), affects our abilities to make use of contemporary health and social care services
• 8 Bion’s (1962) ‘A Psycho-Analytic Study of Thinking’: Understanding how the mind of the other produces and sustains the capacity to ‘think under emotional fire’ for young people and staff within residential care environments
• 9 Going beyond ‘Notes on Infant Observation in Psychoanalytic Training’ (Bick, 1964): Promoting sensitivity and attunement in health and social care
• 10 On meeting our ‘Ghosts in the Nursery’ (Fraiberg, Adelson, & Shapiro, 1975)
• Conclusion
• Index