Description
| Product ID: | 9781855756564 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Making of Psychotherapists |
| Subtitle: | An Anthropological Analysis |
| Authors: | Author: James Davies |
| Page Count: | 318 |
| Subjects: | Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. This book uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. It also exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it. 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. The author''s fascinating and original data is culled from his extensive fieldwork, his case-studies of clinical work, and his interviews with teachers, senior practitioners and trainees. This book is written to be accessible to all those who have an interest in the therapeutic profession from the professional (whether psychotherapist or anthropologist) to the trainee and general reader. |
| Imprint Name: | Karnac Books |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-02-17 |