| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-305) and index. |
| Contents |
Rise and fall of the psychodynamic -- Therapeutic encounter -- Irony in the therapeutic encounter -- Seminar encounter : the transmission of psychodynamic knowledge -- Deflecting doubt, maintaining certainty -- Clinical supervision -- Illness aetiologies and the susceptibilities of training -- Transformed practitioner -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it; effects that profoundly shape not only therapists (professionally and personally), but also the community itself. Davies' fascinating and original data is cu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychotherapists -- Training of.
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Psychotherapists -- Training of. |
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Psychotherapists. |
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Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance.
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Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance. |
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Anthropology.
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Anthropology. |
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Professional socialization.
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Professional socialization. |
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Psychoanalysis. |
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Anthropology. |
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Professional Role. |
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Psychoanalysis -- education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davies, James (James Peter). Making of psychotherapists. London : Karnac, 2009 9781855756564 (DLC) 2009419420 (OCoLC)268799008 |
| ISBN |
9781849408141 (electronic book) |
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1849408149 (electronic book) |
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9781855756564 |
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1855756560 |
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