{"product_id":"getting-from-here-to-there-9781138005877","title":"Getting From Here to There","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is clinical work with the most difficult patients - those with severe narcissistic, sadomasochistic, and borderline disorders - that poses the greatest challenge to the therapist''s guiding assumptions about clinical process; indeed, such work often leads therapists to question beliefs and expectations that formerly seemed self-evident.  In \u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process\u003c\/em\u003e, Sheldon Bach elaborates the holistic vision that guides him in work with just such patients.  He dwells especially on the attentive presence through which the analyst effects a meeting with patients that invites the latter''s trust in the analyst and in the therapeutic process. And he writes of love - of patient for analyst and of analyst for patient - that grows out of this mutual trust and sustains therapeutic process. For Bach, analytic therapy aims at understanding the person as a mind-body unity that manifests particular states of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like a sculptor who can see the form hidden within the block of stone, Sheldon Bach—most recently in his third book on narcissism…opens our eyes to the underlying structure and dynamics of narcissistic disorders. Bach’s observations and formulations are presented in an accessible, engaging and deceptively simple way, but they reflect precision of observation, clarity and sophistication of thought, deep empathy for patients, and genuine clinical wisdom. He is clearly gifted as a healer, scientist, and teacher.\" \u003cem\u003e---Jay Frankel, PhD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sheldon Bach lays bare the deep structure of psychoanalytic work, the process of developing awareness in the context of affective mutuality. His beautifully precise analysis provides an ecumenical and humane perspective on our psychic struggles and grants the essential analytic action of holding the other in mind its true significance. Presented with effortless lucidity, \u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound and practically useful integration of many strands in psychoanalytic history with contemporary understandings of attachment, regulation, and trauma.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003e Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bach explores the complexities, the ambiguities, and the importance of love in and out of the analytic situation. \u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There\u003c\/em\u003e is full of clinical wisdom; more importantly, it uncovers the center of the analyst's emotional life.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003e Steven J. Ellman, Ph.D., President, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Sheldon Bach's \u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process\u003c\/em\u003e is an immersion into this master clinician and teacher's personal relationship with pscyhoanalysis. The gentle, rocking quality of his writing allows him to present new and far-reaching conceptualizations like a psychoanalytic lullaby, permitting the reader to relax and settle in, much as Bach's patients must. I recommend it to those in the first glow of love for psychoanalysis as well as to those who have loved it for a long, long time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003e Gemma M. Ainslie, in \u003cem\u003ePsycCRITIQUES, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface. Introduction. On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself. Narcissism Revisited. Working With the Challenging Patient. A Mind of One's Own. On Getting From Here to There. Confusion in the Analytic Hour. Sadomasochism in Clinical Practice and Everyday Life. Two Ways of Being. Psychoanalysis and Love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019447533911,"sku":"9781138005877","price":46.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138005877.jpg?v=1750780297","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/getting-from-here-to-there-9781138005877","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}