Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients

Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically with complex and disturbed patients in a range of contexts.

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Anne Zachary is a psychoanalyst and retired consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy based in the UK. She trained in medicine and psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital and Friern Hospital and specialised in psychotherapy at the Cassel Hospital. She was locum consultant at the Maudsley Hospital before becoming a consultant at the Portman Clinic and consulted to medium secure units and Broadmoor Hospital. She has a specialist interest in acting out behaviours and risk and a sustained interest in female sexuality. She has a private psychoanalytic practice in SW London.

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Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically with complex and disturbed patients in a range of contexts.

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The essence of nurture

Foreword by Bob Hinshelwood

List of contributors

Clinical psychoanalytic case studies with complex patients: watching experience at work

Anne Zachary

PART ONE Support

Chapter One

'I'm beyond caring': a response to the Francis Report: the failure of social systems in healthcare to adequately support nurses and nursing in the clinical care of their patients

Marcus Evans

PART TWO Autism

Chapter 2a

Affections, words and plays in autistic children: discussion of Maria Rhode's clinical case

Laurent Danon-Boileau

Chapter 2b

'Finding one's feet': body, affect and identifications in a pre-autistic toddler learning to walk

Maria Rhode

Chapter 3

Analysing Miss Daisy: a psychoanalytically informed treatment of an emerging adult autistic woman

Alan Sugarman

PART THREE Psychosomatics and hysteria

Chapter 4

Maternal lineage and transgenerational trauma: time and space in the psychoanalytic encounter

Louise Gyler

Chapter 5a

Hysteria and mourning: a psychosomatic case

Jonathan Sklar

Chapter 5b

Hysteria and mourning a psychosomatic case: discussion of of Jonathan' Sklar's chapter

Susan Loden

PART FOUR Psychosis

Chapter 6

Psychoanalysis, psychosis and the family

Brian Martindale

PART FIVE Identity

Chapter 7

Finding space to think: technical problems of working with a cohort of trans identified young women

Marcus Evans

Chapter 8a

Dementia: prelude to Rachael Davenhill's clinical material from elderly patients

Martin Rossor

Chapter 8b

Dynamics of dementia

Rachael Davenhill

PART SIX Perversion and violence

Chapter 9

A state of inbetweenness: the challenges of working with disavowal

Stephen Blumenthal

Chapter 10

Aspects of the process of child analysis

Angela Joyce

Chapter 11

Peter rabbit was a thief: a case with a background of violence and criminality

Anne Zachary