{"product_id":"getting-from-here-to-there","title":"Getting From Here to There","description":"\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\u003eThis holistic vision of treatment sustains a flexible clinical orientation that enables the analyst to \"meet\" states of consciousness in order to bring them into a system of which the analyst forms a part. Bach thoughtfully explores the clinical issues that enter into this taxing process, among them the establishment and maintenence of basic trust; the patient's or the therapist's presence in the other's mind; and the shifts in agency between patient and therapist. And he describes at length the frequently exhausting, even demoralizing, transference-countertransference struggles that enter into this type of analytic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Bach is guided by the conviction that work with extremely challenging patients promotes the psychological growth and increased self-knowledge of patient and analyst alike. And he is admirably clear that the \"mutual living through\" of such treatments nurtures a kind of love between patient and analyst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGetting From Here to There\u003c\/em\u003e not only records the clinical lessons learned by an unusually gifted analyst; it also chronicles the movement of psychoanalysis itself from the dissection of love into component parts to a synthetic grasp of its vital role in psychoanalytically informed treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54984072298840,"sku":"9780881634396","price":186.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780881634396.jpg?v=1777957263","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/getting-from-here-to-there","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}