Learning from Experience: Guidebook for Clinicians


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An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively deeper ways. � In an effort to aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to "know thyself," Marilyn Charles turns to key ideas that have facilitated her own clinical work with difficult patients. Concepts such as "container" and "contained," transitional space, projective identification, and transference/countertransference are introduced not as academic ideas, but as aspects of the therapeutic environment that elicit greater creativity and vitality on the therapist's part. In Charles's skillful hands, the basic ideas of Klein, Winnicott, and Bion become newly comprehensible without losing depth and richness; they come to life in the fulcrum of daily clinical encounter.Learning from Experience: Guidebook for Clinicians Review
This book reads like a meditation on how to use your experience as a practitioner, your experience in the room, to improve your work with patients. Compared to other practice books I've read, there were few case examples. The emphasis is on the implicit experience of psychotherapy, not explicit technique. The emphasis is mainly on the need to be attuned to yourself in the work. Since I have been heavily exposed to this idea, I found the book didn't really add much to my knowledge base. I do recommend it for those who have had not had sufficient exposure to the very important skill of drawing from one's own experience in sessions, which is a very important and useful practice. Its a smooth and quick read, as her style is contemplative as opposed to didactic. One can even read it as a meditation book: read a few pages and then let the information be digested and assimilated. The material and its presentation is atheoretical.Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Learning from Experience: Guidebook for Clinicians" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Learning from Experience: Guidebook for Clinicians ...

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