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This book is Donnel B. Stern's latest contribution to the kind of understanding of the psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory.

Stern anchors his understanding of therapeutic action in the freedom of both patient and analyst to create a meaningful experience with minimum inhibition. The field's capacity to generate meaningand thus to make possible fully realized human livingrows from its freedom to respond spontaneously to the feelings, wants, and needs of its participants. To whatever extent this spontaneity is diminished, as it is in unconscious mutual enactment, we can be sure that some part of the field is frozen or otherwise rigidified. This position serves as the foundation of the psychoanalysis that Stern practices. The analyst aims to feel their way into compromises in the field, and then do whatever they can to grasp and dissolve them, knowing that they will have to be visited repeatedly, and dissolved again. These insights into interperso

On Coming into Possession of Oneself

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/5/2024
      ISBN13: 9781032688879, 978-1032688879
      ISBN10: 1032688874
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book is Donnel B. Stern's latest contribution to the kind of understanding of the psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory.

      Stern anchors his understanding of therapeutic action in the freedom of both patient and analyst to create a meaningful experience with minimum inhibition. The field's capacity to generate meaningand thus to make possible fully realized human livingrows from its freedom to respond spontaneously to the feelings, wants, and needs of its participants. To whatever extent this spontaneity is diminished, as it is in unconscious mutual enactment, we can be sure that some part of the field is frozen or otherwise rigidified. This position serves as the foundation of the psychoanalysis that Stern practices. The analyst aims to feel their way into compromises in the field, and then do whatever they can to grasp and dissolve them, knowing that they will have to be visited repeatedly, and dissolved again. These insights into interperso

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