| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Trauma and traumatism -- Radical responsibility and clinical hospitality -- Is ethics masochism? Infinite ethical responsibility and finite human capacity -- Philosophy as a way of life -- Witness to indignity: Primo Levi -- Substitution: Mandela and Bonhoeffer -- Dostoevsky: ethics as optics -- Clinical and humanitarian work as prophetic word -- From contrite fallibilism to humility: clinical, personal, and humanitarian |
| Summary |
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, demonstrates the demanding, clinical and humanitarian work that psychotherapists often undertake with fragile and devastated people, those degraded by violence and discrimination. In spite of this, Donna M. Orange argues that there is more to human nature than a relentlessly negative view. Drawing on psychoanalytic and philosophical resources, as well as stories from history and literature, she explores ethical narratives that ground hope in human goodness and shows how these voices, personal to each analyst, can become sources of courage, warning and support, of prophetic challenge and humility which can inform and guide their work. Orange uses examples from ancient Rome (Marcus Aurelius), from twentieth century Europe (Primo Levi, Emmanuel Levinas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer), from South Africa (Nelson Mandela), and from nineteenth century Russia (Fyodor Dostoevsky). She shows how not only how their words and examples, like those of our personal mentors, inspire and warn us, but also how they show us the daily discipline of spiritual self-care. Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians will help psychoanalysts to develop a language with which to converse about ethics and the responsibility of the therapist/analyst. This exceptional contribution is highly suitable for both practitioners and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 30, 2015) |
| Subject |
Psychotherapists -- Psychology
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Psychic trauma.
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Intersubjectivity.
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Humanitarianism -- Psychological aspects
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Survivors -- psychology
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Intersubjectivity
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Psychic trauma
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Psychotherapist and patient
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Psychotherapists -- Psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317386292 |
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1317386299 |
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9781315676814 |
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1315676818 |
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0415856108 |
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9780415856102 |
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