When the Garden Isn’t Eden : : More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life / / Kerry Malawista, Anne Adelman, Linda Kanefield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Malawista, Kerry,; Adelman, Anne,; Kanefield, Linda,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Stories can explore complicated ideas and bring shared experiences to life. Footage of the Knicks’ upset win in the NBA finals triggers a traumatic memory of family tragedy. A young girl starts bullying her best friend after her big sister goes off to sleepaway camp. An adolescent works through her feelings of anger at her father over her parents’ divorce after discovering his infidelity. A patient’s ugly shoes remind an analyst of her own childhood scars. A daughter recognizes her Holocaust-survivor father’s resilience as she comes to terms with his vulnerability after a life-altering accident. Bringing together these narratives and many more, When the Garden Isn’t Eden reveals how psychoanalysis sheds light on the troubles of everyday life.Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness of psychodynamic thinking. Each chapter offers an illustrative and powerful personal vignette followed by an analytical reflection that explicates key psychodynamic concepts, showing how these ideas inform and deepen our understanding of what makes us human. Blending storytelling and psychotherapy, When the Garden Isn’t Eden makes psychodynamic theory vivid and accessible to students, teachers, clinicians, and anyone curious about how therapists work and think.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part One: Clinical Thoughts -- 1. When the Garden Isn’t Eden -- 2. A Visitation -- 3. One Ping at a Time -- 4. What Are You Thinking? -- 5. Three More Days -- Part Two: Development -- 6. What Lurks Under the Bed -- 7. Butterfly Bandage -- 8. Saving Swifty -- 9. Betrayal -- 10. Solid State -- Part Three: Therapeutic Listening -- 11. Lost Cat -- 12. Intoxicating Power -- 13. Stepping Over the Threshold -- 14. Ugly Shoes -- 15. The Limo Ride -- Part Four: Transitions and Challenges -- 16. I Can’t Believe It’s True -- 17. Mucking the Stall -- 18. Take Her Blood -- 19. On Thin Ice -- 20. Virtual Mourning -- Conclusion: The Bridge -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index