Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Nina Coltart


ISBN
9781912691432
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 16mm

Nina Coltart's first classic work reissued with a brand-new foreword by Dr A. H. Brafman. The book contains numerous vivid clinical studies, such as "The Treatment of a Transvestite", "The Analysis of an Elderly Patient", and "The Silent Patient", and brought well-deserved attention to Nina Coltart and her ideas. In 1982, Nina Coltart gave a paper to the English-Speaking Conference of Psychoanalysts called "Slouching towards Bethlehem or Thinking the Unthinkable in Psychoanalysis", which created a stir and brought her to the attention of the psychoanalytic community. Ten years later, she produced her first book this book which contained her seminal paper, alongside so many others of note. Full of eloquent, meaningful, and provocative clinical stories including "The Treatment of a Transvestite", "What Does It Mean: 'Love Is Not Enough?'", "The Analysis of an Elderly Patient", and "The Silent Patient" Nina Coltart exposes the full truth of the therapeutic process, where the analyst may occasionally stray from orthodox practice but how such lapses can sometimes provide unforeseen breakthroughs in treatment. This volume introduced Coltart's characteristic style of journeying through important issues in analytic practice. She elaborates on the use of intuition, the "special" attention required by an analyst, the value of silence, and of humour, and the importance of psychosomatic processes the way the body speaks through psychosomatic symptoms. All vitally relevant today and positively groundbreaking at the time. AUTHOR: Nina Coltart was "one of the most admired and liked psychoanalysts in Britain. For 35 years she was an active member of the British and international psychoanalytic community and she played a major role in extending the influence of analytic ideas outside that world." (A. H. Brafman, "Obituary: Nina Coltart", Independent, 18 August 1997)
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