By Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar (Israel) and Rachel Shalit (Israel)
In this book the editors have solicited the unique and unmediated voices of fifteen leading psychotherapists, who share intimate and revealing stories from their clinic of professional incidents that shook the therapeutic bond and left a scar in both parties. The contributors courageously agreed to revisit the cases that still burn inside of them, attempting to conceptualize these and give them words, and to demonstrate the mutual vulnerability inherent within the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic endeavor.
While failure is recognized as developmentally necessary and a cornerstone in the formation and maintenance of attachment relationships, stories of therapeutic failures are seldom told in our profession. Can we fully recognize our failures without shaming ourselves and others? Can we bear it while attending to our narcissistic wounds and rescue fantasies? This book addresses all of these concerns, while examining what relational theory and practice have to contribute to the understanding of, and working with, therapeutic failure.
Contributors include:
– Julianne Appel-Opper
– Jessica Benjamin
– Doris Brothers
– Muriel Dimen
– Nancy Eichhorn
– Shai Epstein
– Elad Hadad
– Offer Maurer
– Shinar Pinkas
– Barbara Pizer
– Stuart A. Pizer
– Joseph Schwartz
– Mathias Wenk
– Sharon Ziv Beiman
About the Editors:
Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD, is a relational psychotherapist from Israel, founder of two relational body psychotherapy programs (in Israel and the UK). He teaches and lectures worldwide. His books include Anatomy of Therapy and Touching the Relational Edge. He is the editor-in-chief of The International Body Psychotherapy Journal, and an editor with Body Dance and Movement in Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Politics International, and Self and Society.
Rachel Shalit is an integrative and body-oriented psychotherapist, a board member of the Israel Association for Body-Psychotherapy, and a member of Psychosoma, the post-graduate relational body psychotherapy school in Israel. In her previous career she specialized in advising organizations on becoming “learning organizations” engaged with fostering continuous improvement in their methodologies. This passion is now oriented to the psychotherapy field.
Click here for an interview with the co-editors.
Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD
Psychosoma
The Israeli Centre for Body Mind Medicine
103b Shivtey Israel St.
Ramat Hasharon Israel
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Rachel Shalit, BA
#5 Uri Tzvi Greenberg
Tel Aviv 6937910 Israel
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Website: www.rachelshalit.com
