Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Homelessness.
Psychoanal Rev
; 111(2): 135-166, 2024 Jun.
Article
in En
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| ID: mdl-38959071
ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is often viewed as a practice relevant only to educated people of means. This article describes a project that matches psychoanalytically trained clinicians with unhoused and formerly unhoused adults in a large urban community. D. W. Winnicott's ideas about impingement, the holding environment, fear of breakdown, and careful monitoring of the analyst's interiority have proven to be most valuable theoretical and clinical tools. A decade-long case example demonstrates the challenges and healing potentials of the work.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalytic Therapy
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Ill-Housed Persons
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Psychoanal Rev
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article