On learning from the patient

Acknowledgements. Williams, Foreword. Introduction. Preliminary Thoughts on Learning from the Patient. The Internal Supervisor. Internal Supervision: A Lapse and Recovery. Forms of Interactive Communication. Listening from an Interactional Viewpoint: A Clinical Presentation. Key Dynamics of Containment. Analytic Holding Under Pressure. Processes of Search and Discovery in the Therapeutic Experience. The Search for Space: An Issue of Boundaries. Theory Re-discovered. Appendix I: Knowing and Not-knowing: Winnicott and Bion. Appendix II: The Issues of Confidentiality and of Exposure by the Therapist. References. Name Index. Subject Index.