The Internal Soliloquy: From a Psychotherapist's Heart and Mind Thoughts and Feelings I Did and Did Not Share with My PatientsA fast-paced, incisive book about eight fascinating "characters," Dr. Conigliaro's patients. The word "characters" is appropriate: all eight suffered from a "character neurosis," a malady making them "characters." For better, it made them interesting, attractive, intriguing; and for worse, it caused them much suffering. This book also discusses at length the advisability, appropriateness and timing of psychotherapists' sharing personal data about themselves with their patients, and the important differences between sharing impelled by unconscious countertransference and sharing induced by conscious resonances. A rich bibliography completes a book valuable to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and lay people. |
Contents
A Dissection of its Parts | 1 |
On Becoming a Psychoanalyst | 10 |
Meeting BrunoShould One Let Sleeping Giants Lie? | 17 |
Progress with Bruno | 32 |
Final Thoughts and Feelings About Bruno Schizophrenia and ECT | 44 |
Keep Your Fing Phallic Symbols to Yourself Doc | 49 |
Three Big Secrets | 60 |
Completing Therapy with Suso | 67 |
Working with John | 127 |
The Therapeutic Alliance with John Strengthens | 145 |
Johns Dream | 153 |
Biting Words | 157 |
John Re Discovers his Mother | 165 |
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | 171 |
Sharing My Past With John | 187 |
Dear JohnEnding Therapy | 201 |
Heavy MothersPart I | 94 |
Heavy MothersPart II | 101 |
Elaine and Peter | 114 |
Fred and Janet | 120 |
A Final Soliloquy | 216 |
References 223225 | 223 |
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