Life in the Consulting Room
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- ISBN 9781782206392
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Life in the Consulting Room offers a series of noteworthy vignettes that occurred in the author's consulting room. Although the context and objective of each consultation varied, the decision to present them here is due to a particularly interesting feature of the patient's life or a significant point that arose during their interview with the author. Many of the cases have issues of academic interest but these are not pursued here. Instead, these accounts should be seen as portraits, "snapshots" that were considered emotionally interesting and intellectually stimulating. Some of these patients were in short- or long-term therapy, but most cases were being assessed to determine whether psychotherapy was in fact the best way of helping them. No doubt all psychodynamic practitioners will have met some of these findings in their practice, but the present book offers a particularly significant collection of clinical episodes.
A. H. Brafman trained as a psychoanalyst of adults and children. In his NHS career he worked as a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, and for many years ran a group for parents and under-fives. He ran infant observation courses at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and also seminars on psychodynamic work with children, adolescents, and adults for the British Psychoanalytic Society and several other training organisations.
