Learning from Experience A Guidebook for Clinicians
Learning from Experience: A Guidebook for Clinicians by Marilyn Charles, published by Analytic Press in 2004, is a 128-page resource designed to assist clinicians, particularly those who are newer to the field. This guidebook addresses the essential task of self-awareness in clinical practice, emphasizing the importance of understanding one’s own experiences to better engage with patients. Marilyn Charles draws on key concepts from influential figures in psychoanalysis to provide insights that enhance the therapeutic environment.
In this edition, readers will find practical discussions on concepts such as “container” and “contained,” transitional space, projective identification, and transference/countertransference. These ideas are presented not merely as theoretical constructs but as vital components that can foster creativity and vitality in therapeutic settings. Charles aims to make the foundational theories of Klein, Winnicott, and Bion accessible and applicable, enriching the clinician’s daily encounters with patients. This guidebook serves as a valuable reference for those seeking to deepen their understanding of psychotherapy and enhance their clinical skills.
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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.
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