Title The making of psychotherapists : an anthropological analysis / James Davies.

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London : Karnac, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-305) and index.
Contents	The rise and fall of the psychodynamic -- The therapeutic encounter -- Irony in the therapeutic encounter -- The seminar encounter : the transmission of psychodynamic knowledge -- Deflecting doubt, maintaining certainty -- Clinical supervision -- Illness aetiologies and the susceptibilities of training -- The transformed practitioner -- The conclusion.
Summary	Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it; effects that profoundly shape not only therapists (professionally and personally), but also the community itself. Davies' fascinating and original data is cu.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Psychotherapists -- Training of.
	Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance.
	Anthropology.
	Professional socialization.
	Psychoanalysis.
	Anthropology.
	Professional Role.
	Psychoanalysis -- education.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
	Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
	Professional socialization. (OCoLC)fst01078526
	Psychotherapists -- Training of. (OCoLC)fst01081751
	Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance. (OCoLC)fst01081812
	Psychoanalyse.
	Ausbildung.
	Sozialanthropologie.
	Psychoanalytiker.
	Beruf.
	Sozialisation.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Davies, James (James Peter). Making of psychotherapists. London : Karnac, 2009 9781855756564 (DLC) 2009419420 (OCoLC)268799008
ISBN	9781849408141 (electronic bk.)
	1849408149 (electronic bk.)

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