Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis - 9781138315495

Name: Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis - 9781138315495
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational PsychoanalysisStories from Adolescence to the Consulting Room\nAuthor(s): Christina Moutsou\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138315495, 978-1138315495\nSynopsis\nFictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis explores the therapeutic space between the patient and therapist in psychoanalysis and the transformative effect of the therapeutic relationship through a collection of twenty-two short stories beginning at a moment of trauma in adolescence. Christina Moutsou illustrates both contemporary clinical issues as well as the relational and intersubjective nature of the therapy relationship.\n\nFirst, six teenagers narrate in the first person their experience of battling with sexual abuse, eating disorder, body image, the first sexual awakening, loss of a parent and the intricacies of teenage friendship. The stories then unravel years later as adults in the c.