Book Announcement by Johanna Dobrich (USA)
Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process explores a previously neglected area in the field of psychoanalysis, addressing undertheorized concepts on siblings, disabilities and psychic survivorship, and broadening our conceptualization of the enduring effects of lateral relations on human development.
What happens to a person’s sense of self both personally and professionally when they grow up alongside a severely disabled sibling? Through a series of qualitative interviews held between the author and a sample of psychoanalysts, this book examines both the unconscious experience and the interpersonal field of survivor siblings. Through a trauma-informed contemporary psychoanalytic lens, Dobrich combines data analysis, theory-building, memoir, and clinical storytelling to explore and explicate the impact of lateral survivorship on the clinical moment, making room for a contemporary and nuanced appreciation of siblings in psychoanalysis.
Integrating academic and memoir writing, this book will engage therapists building theory around the implications of the analyst’s subjectivity on clinical processes, as well as all those who work with and treat patients who are themselves survivor siblings.
Johanna Dobrich, MA, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City specializing in the treatment of dissociative disorders, trauma, and loss/bereavement. She teaches postgraduate courses and supervises those in advanced training at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC), the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York City.
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