Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

The Work of Irma Brenman Pick

Irma Brenman Pick, M. Fakhry Davids, Naomi Shavit

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Routledge
13 February 2018

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick’s original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical narratives that succeed in shedding a humane light on the struggles that patients – and, indeed, all of us – face in recognising, in an authentic way, our need for, and the contribution of, others in our lives.

Brenman Pick is interested in the infantile antecedents of conflict in her patients, and the book demonstrates the attention needed to sense how these may be present in the patient’s clinical material. This involves an ability to understand the complex and sophisticated unconscious phantasies that are alive in the patient’s mind. She combines this with a creative clinical imagination that allows her to address these expertly in the here-and-now of the analytic encounter. A particular feature of this is the way Brenman Pick uses the analyst’s countertransference to bring in ways in which the struggle over authenticity also extends to the analyst. The focus on authenticity runs through the book and brings an interesting and original perspective to the topics discussed, which include adolescence, sexual identity, stealing and its relationship to the acknowledgement of dependency, the experience of uncertainty, concern for the object, destructiveness, creativity and the striving towards integration.

These contributions will prove invaluable to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals interested in deepening their understanding of the complex relationships that can arise in the consulting room.

By: Irma Brenman Pick
Edited by: M. Fakhry Davids, Naomi Shavit
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 503g
ISBN: 9780815385455
ISBN 10: 0815385455
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 13 February 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Michael Brearley Introduction M. Fakhry Davids and Naomi Shavit SECTION 1: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 1: Working through in the countertransference (1985) Chapter 2: Breakdown in communication: on finding the child in the analysis of an adult (1985) Chapter 3: The emergence of early object relations in the psychoanalytic setting (1992) Chapter 4: Working through in the countertransference revisited: experiences of supervision (2012) SECTION 2: AUTHENTICITY Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 5: On stealing: clinical notes on three adolescent boys (1967) Chapter 6: Precocious development (1969) Chapter 7: Concern: spurious or real (1995) Chapter 8: Creativity and authenticity (2012) SECTION 3: ADOLESCENCE AND SEXUALITY Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 9: Adolescence: its impact on patient and analyst (1988); Chapter 10: Female sexuality: some clinical considerations (1985) Chapter 11: Male sexuality: a clinical study of forces that impede development (1985) SECTION 4: FURTHER CLINICAL THEMES Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 12: Dangling in uncertainty (2002) Chapter 13: Bringing things together (2004) Chapter 14: The interwoven snakes: lurching between longing and destruction (2015)

Irma Brenman Pick is a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She is a past President of the Society. She trained first as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and then as an Adult and a Child Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. She served on many committees in the British Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association and has taught in a number of countries, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, India, Israel, Scandinavia, South Africa, and in the USA (Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle). She is an Honorary Member of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society. M. Fakhry Davids is a Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Trauma and Refugees, University of Essex, and Visiting Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (2011). Naomi Shavit is a Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She also trained as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she taught for many years. She has taught widely on psychoanalytic and psychotherapy trainings in London, and has conducted post-graduate clinical workshops abroad, including Denmark, Israel, India, Italy and Japan.

Reviews for Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick

Irma Brenman Pick, among the most respected and admired analysts in the British Society, is particularly known, and her work particularly valued, for her emotional acuity, her close and sensitive attention to what goes on within the analytic couple. The papers in this book vividly illustrate her ability to keep in mind the pressures, impulses and defences of both partners in the analytic couple and the way these play out in- and can sometimes interfere with- the analytic process. Brenman-Pick has become a valued teacher internationally. This book is sure to interest her many admirers, and to introduce this important work to a larger audience. -Priscilla Roth, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Fellow, British Psychoanalytic Society. These papers reflect the wealth and depth of Irma Brenman-Pick's clinical experience. She explores the range of unconscious phantasies that embody both the patient's destructiveness, and their more positive feelings. In her vivid clinical vignettes, she shows, with courage and sensitivity, the impact the projection of such phantasies have on the analyst, and demonstrates an impressive capacity to recognise and to work through what the patient evokes in the analyst and how this interacts with elements in the analyst's own personality. -Michael Feldman, Chair, Melanie Klein Trust.