Learning from Life. Becoming a Psychoanalyst
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Author(s): P. Casement
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415399319
Format: softback
212pp
Price: £17.99
Review Date: 13 February 2007
Review: Here Patrick Casement, retired psychoanalyst and therapist, talks about the way in which he has leaned from life and, in particular, from his own life experiences – these range from his childhood experiences, conflictual experiences with family members, moments of revelation, and certain pivotal changes deriving from his work as an analyst. The book is not only about Casement’s life, but about sources of experiences that can contribute to the acquisition of analytic wisdom, as oppose to simply analytic knowledge. The reader can view it as a cautionary tale of the innumerable pitfalls that can distract an analyst from taking the pain that patients recount to them very seriously.