John Steiner is a psychoanalyst and member of the London Kleinian Group. His new book is about patients who perceive the analyst’s intervention as a threat to their safety and defend themselves against the person they turn to for help.
John Steiner is a psychoanalyst and member of the London Kleinian Group. His new book is about patients who perceive the analyst’s intervention as a threat to their safety and defend themselves against the person they turn to for help. Based on examples from his clinical practice, the psychoanalyst describes the special relationship with reality that is characteristic of such patients, the response feelings and reactions of the analyst, and possible therapeutic strategies.
Kogito-Center, 239 p.