Bhaskar Sripada

Broschiertes Buch

When Suicide Beckons

A Psychoanalyst's Memoir

Beschreibung

Bhaskar Sripada explores the analytic challenges of treating grief and suicidal depression in his memoir When Suicide Beckons. Written for laypersons and practicing clinicians, the book offers insight into how analysis works from both the patient's and analyst's point of view. Dr. Sripada discusses how his professional analytic training and patient-evoked reactions shaped his actions. Additionally, this book clarifies the benefit of a psychoanalytic perspective in today's troubled world. -Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D.; Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association Contemporary psychoanalysis is a co-creative activity that heals psychological suffering at its core. This memoir by Bhaskar Sripada gives us an intimate glimpse into this process. Psychoanalytic ideas and their real-life applications are presented masterfully in this story about a healing human connection. It will educate and entertain all those interested in learning about psychoanalysis today. -Neal Spira, M.D. Past Dean at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Like Captain Kirk, Dr. Sripada boldly goes where no analyst has gone before. While elaborating on his own history, emotions, and feelings, he takes us with him on his journey of successfully analyzing a patient lured to the very edge of suicide. -Cliff Wilkerson, M.D. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis

Autor

BHASKAR SRIPADA, M.D., is a Board-Certified Adult and Child and adolescent Analyst who has practiced psychoanalysis in Chicago since 1980. A faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis since 1995, Dr. Sripada teaches, supervises, and has published widely in the field.He is the developer of Essential Psychoanalysis, a contemporary model that reaffirms Freud's core principles-unconscious processes, transference, and resistance-interpreting them through the lens of modern psychoanalytic insights and discoveries. Essential Psychoanalysis draws flexibly from various traditions, including instinct theory, ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, intersubjectivity, and new developments in neuropsychoanalysis. Offering a pluralistic and integrative framework, it values the perspectives of both patient and analyst. While Essential Psychoanalysis recognizes the importance of theoretical coherence for the analyst, it maintains that the true measure of analytic work lies in the impact the analyst has on the patient, helping the patient understand their suffering, facilitating change where possible, and fostering richer, more meaningful experiences of love and work.In his book, When Suicide Beckons, Dr. Sripada brings his model to life by providing an account of the analytic process. He presents a unique first-person narrative that alternates between the voices of patient and analyst, revealing his own evolving responses and memories. His forthcoming book, Psychoanalytic Supervision, extends this approach to the supervisory process. In both works, he emphasizes experience-near, first-person communication over abstract theorizing, focusing on lived experience and the personal connection between analyst and patient.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DRS. SRIPADA M.D. S.C.
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 923g
• ISBN-13: 9798985577815
• Artikelnr.: 66263473