This book is the outcome of a fruitful dialogue between relational psychoanalysis, neo-Bionian psychoanalysis, and Gestalt therapy on a contemporary growing edge of clinical practice: field theory. With multiple professional perspectives and essential clinical material, this is key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
This book is the outcome of a fruitful dialogue between relational psychoanalysis, neo-Bionian psychoanalysis, and Gestalt therapy on a contemporary growing edge of clinical practice: field theory.
What is happening in contemporary clinical practice that seems to be pushing theories towards a field perspective? Clinical issues are complex phenomenathey cannot be separated from social and cultural changes. Suffering, clients, and therapists change over time, and with them so do the needs and theoretical approaches of clinical professionals, so as to be able to update and adjust care practices.
This book is an independent, yet common study, which through the field concept explores what complexity theories and dynamic systems theories have described as emerging phenomena, or what phenomenological philosophy categorized as phenomenal field, pathic aesthetics, and atmospherology, or, more generally, our understanding of the relationship between clinical practice and critical thinking and of the centrality of the individual, as developed by postmodern thinkers.
With multiple professional perspectives and essential clinical material, this is key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
1. Working in the Interpersonal Field: Two Clinical Narratives
2. Field
Perspective in Relational Psychoanalysis. Response to Donnel Stern
3.
Post-Bionian Field Theory and the Ethical Refounding of Psychoanalysis
4.
Field Perspective in Gestalt Therapy. Is a Dialogue Possible with
Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis?
5. Where Everything Shivers and Speaks.
Precious Fragments of Experience
6. Necessary Light that Makes Me the Chosen
Host. Field Theories in Gestalt Therapy and Clinical Practice
7. Discussion
for Gianni Francesetti and Michela Gecele
8. Anna. A Clinical Case Study
9.
Affects and Dissociative Field. Discussion of the Clinical Case by Paola
Zarini
10. Anna KO.
11. We Wish You a Good Life, Anna! A
Field-Theory-Informed View of Gestalt Therapy.
12. What We See and Do Depends
on the Point from Where We Look
13. Field and Psychotherapy: Attempting a New
Paradigm
14. Historical Remarks on the Relationship between Gestalt Therapy
and Psychoanalysis
Gianni Francesetti, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Gestalt psychotherapist, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin (Italy), international trainer and supervisor, co-director of IPSIG and of the Turin School of Psychopathology, co-founder of IG-FEST.
Michela Gecele, M.D., is a psychiatrist and Gestalt psychotherapist. She formerly coordinated, in Turin, a psychological and psychiatric service for immigrants. International trainer and supervisor, co-director of IPSIG and of the Turin School of Psychopathology, co-founder of IG-FEST.
Paolo Migone, M.D., is editor of the Italian journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane (Psychotherapy and the Human Sciences), co-chair of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group, and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and of Psychological Issues. He founded the Italian chapters of SPR and SEPI.
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