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| Author(s): | T. H. Ogden |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9780415468633 |
| Format: | softback |
| 168pp | |
| Price: | £22.99 |
| Review Date: | 12 January 2009 |
| Review: | In this book the author posits the idea that it is the analyst’s task to engage in a process of rediscovering psychoanalysis in everything that he or she does: in each analytic session, in each supervisory hour, in each meeting of a psychoanalytical seminar, in each reading of an analytical work etc. He discusses three overlapping and interwoven forms of his own experience of rediscovering psychoanalysis: freshly creating psychoanalysis in the process of talking with each patient in each analytic session; rediscovering psychoanalysis in the experience of supervising and teaching psychoanalysis; and ‘dreaming up’ psychoanalysis for oneself in the act of reading and writing about analytic texts and literary works. The author demonstrates how, by attending to one’s own idiosyncratic ways of thinking, feeling and responding to patients, the psychoanalyst can develop a ‘style’ of his or her own. |