When Suicide Beckons - Bhaskar Sripada

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Résumé :
Bhaskar Sripada explores the analytic challenges of treating grief and suicidal depression in his memoir When Suicide Beckons. Written for laypersons and practicing clinicians, the book offers insight into how analysis works from both the patient's and analyst's point of view. Dr. Sripada discusses how his professional analytic training and patient-evoked reactions shaped his actions. Additionally, this book clarifies the benefit of a psychoanalytic perspective in today's troubled world. -Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D....

Biographie:
In his memoir, Bhaskar Sripada, M.D., a psychoanalyst, describes his experience treating a patient with depression using Essential Psychoanalysis. Emotions, thoughts, and memories evoked in him by the patient, more than by abstract theories, guide his actions. Despite the uncertainty created by their active observations and interactions, the patient and analyst maintain different perspectives. Although theyshare a common understanding concerning many aspects of their interactions, they often attribute different meanings to their communications. They may sometimes disagree even about what is happening in the analytic sessions. With the help of the analyst, the patient reevaluates his interests, frustrations, conflicts, novelties, and errors, redefines what is desirable, ideal, and good enough, and reshapes his Self. As in the case he presents, where a patient steps away from the brink of suicide, understanding the unconscious and conscious roots of a patient's suffering leads to insight, change, and healing. Dr. Sripada has been practicing psychoanalysis since 1980 and has taught at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis since 1995. He currently resides and practices in Chicago....

Sommaire:
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association Contemporary psychoanalysis is a co-creative activity that heals psychological suffering at its core. This memoir by Bhaskar Sripada gives us an intimate glimpse into this process. Psychoanalytic ideas and their real-life applications are presented masterfully in this story about a healing human connection. It will educate and entertain all those interested in learning about psychoanalysis today. -Neal Spira, M.D. Past Dean at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Like Captain Kirk, Dr. Sripada boldly goes where no analyst has gone before. While elaborating on his own history, emotions, and feelings, he takes us with him on his journey of successfully analyzing a patient lured to the very edge of suicide. -Cliff Wilkerson, M.D. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis...