Product Description

In this follow up to his best seller On Learning from the Patient, Patrick Casement looks further into the techniques of analysis and psychotherapy and focuses on what happens for good or ill in the analytic space between analyst and patient.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #212011 in Books
• Published on: 1990-09-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
"No one writes about the process of psychotherapy as simply and yet as profoundly as Patrick Casement." - Journal of Social Work Practice

From the Back Cover
Patrick Casement's first book, On Learning from the Patient, is a best seller in its field and has been published in twelve languages. In this new, follow-up volume, the author looks further into the techniques of analysis and psychotherapy and focuses on what happens in the analytic space between analyst and patient.
Using many clinical examples, Patrick Casement shows the value of monitoring clinical work from the patient's point of view as well as the therapist's. This process of 'internal supervision' can teach the therapist new things, such as the patient's unconscious search for what is needed for emotional health and recovery. Stressing the importance for the therapist of listening attentively to the patient and taking notice of the communication implicit in behaviour, Casement argues that the unconscious is a potentially positive force, which can work constructively with the therapist.
Casement's development of original concepts, and his use of examples to deepen and clarify clinical understanding of the processes involved in analysis and psychotherapy, make Further Learning from the Patient of special value.

About the Author
Patrick Casement is a trained analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and a member of the Birtish Association of Psychotherapists, Having formerly been a social worker.

Customer Reviews

My 100-word book review
This is an excellent companion to Patrick Casement's earlier book On Learning from the Patient. In this book, the author speaks out against too much reliance on dogma and psychoanalytic theory, encouraging his fellow practitioners to allow the client as much freedom as possible within the analytic space. Although Casement is a psychodynamic therapist, he comes over as very person-centred, a sign that effective therapy may depend more on the therapist than on the theoretical framework he or she is operating from. If you found Patrick Casement's earlier book enlightening, you will certainly find this one of great value too.

A Close Focus on Transference
I found this book quite remarkable and in several ways a significant advance on his previous effort. Casement begins by describing his personal background, he entered the ministry and then became a social worker before a psychoanalyst, all the time looking for a way of working with people that he could commit himself to. He describes his theoretical debts especially to Bion and Winnicott.

Casement then moves on to a very lengthy case study which he will refer to throughout the book.

After that for several chapters we get an indepth look at the phenomenon of transference, discussed in many further case studies which are analysed with great subtlety. I found these chapters shed a great deal of light on many experiences of mine both as a therapee and a therapist. i have never read anything which casts such an unassuming and yet brilliant light on the therapeutic relationship.

The final few chapters act mostly as a theoretical summary of the middle section. Casement weds the intense discipline of psychoanalysis with the patient and principled respect for the client of say Carl Rogers and the results are most instructive, even if we are unable to see anyone for three days a week ourselves. Don't miss it.