Emotional understanding : studies in psychoanalytic epistemology
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Emotional understanding : studies in psychoanalytic epistemology
Guilford Press, c1995
Available at 13 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 207-218
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With a unique blend of clinical compassion and philosophical reflection, Donna M. Orange explores the nature and process of psychoanalytic understanding within the intimate and healing context of treatment. Disputing the traditional psychoanalytic emphasis on verbalization, Orange highlights the [i]emotional[/i] nature of psychoanalytic understanding. Because much of emotional understanding is tacit understanding, it requires the analyst's empathic participation in the patient's emotional predicament, and attention to the kinds of memories that precede and extend beyond words. Delineating the philosophical underpinnings of emotional understanding/m-/and illuminating the epistemology of the therapeutic enterprise/m-/this book is enlightening reading for all mental health professionals interested in psychodynamic theory and treatment.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Making Sense Together
2. Understanding Understanding
3. Theory-Choice and Fallibilism
4. Towards an Epistemology of Perspectival Realism
5. Cotransference: The Analyst's Perspective
6. Experience: Given and Made
7. Affect and Emotional Life
8. Emotional Memory
9. Emotional Availability
10. Misunderstanding: A Collaborative Pragmatist View
11. How Does Psychoanalytic Understanding Heal?
12. Illustration: Understanding Schreber
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