Description
Available for 6 months from the day of purchase.
Part of the New Library of Psychoanalysis Webinar series
A chance to hear authors discuss their work, to find out more about recently published books and to revisit classic texts and best sellers.
These conversations will be of interest to clinicians working in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and other areas of mental health.
Vic Sedlak, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, will be joined in discussion with Julia Fabricius, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Anne Patterson, Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis, will introduce Vic Sedlak’s book.
In The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots: The Emotional Development of the Clinician, Vic Sedlak examines clinicians’ fear of a superego which threatens to become censorious of themselves or their patient and their need to aspire to standards demanded by their ego ideals. These dynamic forces are considered in relation to treatments which fail, to supervision and to recent innovations in psychoanalytic technique. The difficulty of giving thought to hostility is particularly stressed.
Richly illustrated with clinical material, this book will enable practitioners to recognise the unconscious forces which militate against their clinical effectiveness.
From Endorsements:
“…Compelling to read, this beautifully written report of one analyst’s struggles was, for me, emotionally evocative and educationally enlightening. It is a compelling master class in the perplexity of analytic exploration, where each journey is original and unique” Warren S. Poland, Sigourney Awardee 2009, Author Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis.
“…Anyone who is interested in understanding the unconscious dynamics in the therapist/patient relationship will be rewarded by reading Vic Sedlak’s accessible and insightful study of the “glancing” thought; the thought that the clinician resists knowing without knowing he or she is avoiding it…” Donald Campbell, Training and supervising analyst, Distinguished Fellow and past President, British Psychoanalytical Society.
“…Here he examines the role of the analyst’s reactions and responses in the psychoanalytic session. He covers a wide field but for me he is particularly convincing when he describes how the analyst’s responsiveness is especially affected by his capacity to accept the emergence of hatred, hostility and destructiveness in his patient and also in himself…” John Steiner, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society.
