Children, Feelings and Divorce : Finding the Best Outcome Book

In this book the Author selects and presents eighteen ofhis most salient clinical papers. His way of presenting detailed treatment cases is useful to the therapist and reveals an original orientation based on his "five channel theory of psychoanalytic listening", that involves listening and responding to the patient from different stances or frameworks. Dr. Chessick reviews also the various factors that he feels, from his 40 years of clinical experience, that are operative in bringing about change in psychoanalytic treatment. Chessick's study is personal and reveals much about the inner thoughts of the psychoanalyst as he struggles to deal with difficult problems, including impasses and failures, in the treatment. In this book the Author selects and presents eighteen of his most salient clinical papers. His way of presenting detailed treatment cases is useful to the therapist and reveals an original orientation based on his "five channel theory of psychoanalytic listening", that involves listening and responding to the patient from different stances or frameworks. Dr. Chessick reviews also the various factors that he feels, from his 40 years of clinical experience, that are operative in bringing about change in psychoanalytic treatment. Chessick's study is personal and reveals much about the inner thoughts of the psychoanalyst as he struggles to deal with difficult problems, including impasses and failures, in the treatment. DESCRIPTION : Richard D. Chessick is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Northwestern University and Senior Attending Psychiatrist at Evanston Hospital, in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychiatry for 40 years in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Centre for Psychoanalytic Study. Author of 15 books and over 200 papers in the field of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and philosophy.