Learning from the Patient

About this book

In one volume this book presents Patrick Casements two classic works On Learning from the Patient and Further Learning from the Patient. The patients unconscious contribution to analytic work is fully explored. Casement writes with unusual openness about what really happens in the consulting room including mistakes--his own as well as others. Everything in psychoanalytic theory and technique is up for questioning and for careful testing in the clinical setting. Casement provides fresh insights on familiar concepts as well as developing a number that are new; every concept is explained and illustrated with clinical examples.