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Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick
Irma Brenman Pick | Edited by Fakhry Davis and Naomi Shavit
Routledge / Softcover / Feb 2018
9780815385462 (ISBN-10: 0815385463)
New Library of Psychoanalysis / Klein and the Kleinians
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Authenticity in The Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick’s original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical narratives that succeed in shedding a humane light on the struggles that patients – and, indeed, all of us – face in recognizing, in an authentic way, our need for, and the contribution of, others in our lives.

Brenman Pick is interested in the infantile antecedents of conflict in her patients, and the book demonstrates the attention needed to sense how these may be present in the patient’s clinical material. This involves an ability to understand the complex and sophisticated unconscious phantasies that are alive in the patient’s mind. She combines this with a creative clinical imagination that allows her to address these expertly in the here-and-now of the analytic encounter. A particular feature of this is the way Brenman Pick uses the analyst’s countertransference to bring in ways in which the struggle over authenticity also extends to the analyst. The focus on authenticity runs through the book and brings an interesting and original perspective to the topics discussed, which include adolescence, sexual identity, stealing and its relationship to the acknowledgement of dependency, the experience of uncertainty, concern for the object, destructiveness, creativity and the striving towards integration.

These contributions will prove invaluable to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals interested in deepening their understanding of the complex relationships that can arise in the consulting room.

Table of Contents

Foreword Michael Brearley Introduction M. Fakhry Davids and Naomi Shavit SECTION 1: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 1: Working through in the countertransference (1985) Chapter 2: Breakdown in communication: on finding the child in the analysis of an adult (1985) Chapter 3: The emergence of early object relations in the psychoanalytic setting (1992) Chapter 4: Working through in the countertransference revisited: experiences of supervision (2012) SECTION 2: AUTHENTICITY Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 5: On stealing: clinical notes on three adolescent boys (1967) Chapter 6: Precocious development (1969) Chapter 7: Concern: spurious or real (1995) Chapter 8: Creativity and authenticity (2012) SECTION 3: ADOLESCENCE AND SEXUALITY Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 9: Adolescence: its impact on patient and analyst (1988); Chapter 10: Female sexuality: some clinical considerations (1985) Chapter 11: Male sexuality: a clinical study of forces that impede development (1985) SECTION 4: FURTHER CLINICAL THEMES Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 12: Dangling in uncertainty (2002) Chapter 13: Bringing things together (2004) Chapter 14: The interwoven snakes: lurching between longing and destruction (2015)

About the Author/Editors

Irma Brenman Pick is an internationally renowned Distinguished Fellow, Senior Supervising and Training Analyst, and past President of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She trained as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and as an Adult and a Child Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.

M Fakhry Davids is a Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Trauma and Refugees, University of Essex, and Visiting Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of Internal Racism: A psychoanalytic approach to race and difference (2011).

Naomi Shavit is a Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She also trained as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she taught for many years. She has taught widely on psychoanalytic and psychotherapy trainings in London, and has conducted post-graduate clinical workshops abroad, including Denmark, Israel, India, Italy and Japan.


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