Learning from Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst

by Patrick Casement

All of life can be a resource for our learning. In his fourth and most personal book, Patrick Casement attempts to understand what he has learned from life, sharing a wide range of those experiences that have helped shape the analyst he has become. Patrick Casement shares various incidents in his life to demonstrate how these helped lay a foundation for his subsequent understanding of psychoanalysis. These examples from his life and work are powerful and at times very moving, but always filled with hope and compassion. This unique book gives a fascinating insight into fundamental questions concerning the acquisition of analytic wisdom and how personal experiences shape the analyst's approach to clinical work. It will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Genres: Psychology

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

Reviews

[Paul Johnston · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really interesting book, sharing a life of working with patients. All the material is really interesting, but it is more a collection than a structured book. This is his fourth book (I think) and it seems like he had more to say and so he did. I am certainly very glad he did so. Makes me want to read the other three books.