{"product_id":"getting-from-here-to-there-analytic-love-analytic-process-9781138005877","title":"Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sheldon Bach\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Emotions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is clinical work with the most difficult patients - those with severe narcissistic, sadomasochistic, and borderline disorders - that poses the greatest challenge to the therapist's guiding assumptions about clinical process; indeed, such work often leads therapists to question beliefs and expectations that formerly seemed self-evident. In \u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process\u003c\/em\u003e, Sheldon Bach elaborates the holistic vision that guides him in work with just such patients. He dwells especially on the \"attentive presence\" through which the analyst effects a \"meeting\" with patients that invites the latter's trust in the analyst and in the therapeutic process. And he writes of love - of patient for analyst and of analyst for patient - that grows out of this mutual trust and sustains therapeutic process. For Bach, analytic therapy aims at understanding the person as a mind-body unity that manifests particular states of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis holistic vision of treatment sustains a flexible clinical orientation that enables the analyst to \"meet\" states of consciousness in order to bring them into a system of which the analyst forms a part. Bach thoughtfully explores the clinical issues that enter into this taxing process, among them the establishment and maintenence of basic trust; the patient's or the therapist's presence in the other's mind; and the shifts in agency between patient and therapist. And he describes at length the frequently exhausting, even demoralizing, transference-countertransference struggles that enter into this type of analytic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Bach is guided by the conviction that work with extremely challenging patients promotes the psychological growth and increased self-knowledge of patient and analyst alike. And he is admirably clear that the \"mutual living through\" of such treatments nurtures a kind of love between patient and analyst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There\u003c\/em\u003e not only records the clinical lessons learned by an unusually gifted analyst; it also chronicles the movement of psychoanalysis itself from the dissection of love into component parts to a synthetic grasp of its vital role in psychoanalytically informed treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45236647395479,"sku":"9781138005877","price":6666.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138005877.webp?v=1769213894","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/getting-from-here-to-there-analytic-love-analytic-process-9781138005877","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}