Psychoanalysis, the NHS, and Mental Health Work Today

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2017
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-368-1 (ISBN)

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This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.Psychoanalytic thinking contributes to effective mental health work on many levels, from Balint's "Flash" technique in the brief GP/patient encounter to the psychiatric medical and nursing care in secure units, where the most challenging patients need to be held. Starting with the historical contribution of psychoanalysis to the NHS in the 1940s, this book goes on to explore two key psychoanalytic concepts that remain highly relevant to the work of mental health: containment and countertransference. The authors include psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, organisational consultants, consultant psychiatrists, and a leading practitioner in the field of primary care. Between them, they address a wide range of contemporary issues, including the complexity of work with traumatised individuals, including refugees; the wide-ranging psychoanalytic contribution to child and adolescent services; the impact on commissioning of a market culture skewed towards targets and quick wins; and the working conditions that can cause staff to neglect and abuse their patients, and/or become ill themselves. Detailed case vignettes and discussion illustrate the psychoanalytic understanding required, if the NHS is to continue to tackle the complex mental health problems that face our society today.With contributions by Julia Britton, Tim Dartington, Clare Gerada, Richard Ingram, Amanda Keenan, Marilyn Miller, Turlough Mills, Carine Minne, Siobhan O'Connor, Christopher Scanlon, Judy Shuttleworth, Wilhelm Skogstad, Michael Smith, Joanne Stubley, Kyriakos Thomaidis-Zades, and Alison Vaspe.

Alison Vaspe trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists (now the British Psychotherapy Foundation), before applying for membership as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytic Association. She has extensive experience of working therapeutically with NHS staff and students, including fifteen years at the South London & Maudsley Foundation Trust. She is now in full-time private practice in Hampshire.

Statement of Confidentiality , Series Foreword , Introduction , Psychoanalytic Approaches to Working with Patients , Theory in use: perspectives on containment , Countertransference experiences as an aid to staff working with traumatised patients , Thinking psychoanalytically about mental health services for children, adolescents, and their parents , Siobhan O’Connor: two tributes , Learning from women with psychosis , Staff and Organisational Needs and Challenges , Reflective psychiatry: psychoanalytic theory in everyday clinical practice , Working with dilemmas and disappointment in difficult places: towards a psychosocial model for team-focused reflective practice , On being an observing participant in a therapeutic institution: using psychoanalytic understanding in the work in an organisation , A view from a death: understanding the impact on staff of mental health work with older adults , The organisational context for good care , General practice, mental health, and stress. Part 1: a dialogue , General practice, mental health, and stress. Part 2: organisational model and commentary on the postmodern context , Concluding remarks

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.3.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-78220-368-0 / 1782203680
ISBN-13	978-1-78220-368-1 / 9781782203681
Zustand	Neuware