{"product_id":"9781583918791-containing-states-of-mind","title":"Containing States of Mind","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the implications Bion's container model has on clinical practice. As well as addressing key theoretical problems the book is a clinical text that renders complex ideas accessible for psychotherapeutic and analytic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilfred Bion’s insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most influential ideas concerns the notion that we need the minds of others to develop our own emotional and cognitive capacities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eContaining States of Mind\u003c\/em\u003e Duncan Cartwright explores and develops some of the implications that Bion’s container model has on clinical practice. He argues that the analyst or therapist best fulfils a containing function by negotiating irreconcilable internal tensions between his role as ‘dream object’ and ‘proper object’. The container model is also used to illustrate different ‘modes of interaction’ in the analytic field, the nature of particular pathological states and some of the key dilemmas faced in attempting to make unbearable mental states more bearable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as addressing key theoretical problems, \u003cem\u003eContaining States of Mind\u003c\/em\u003e is a clinical text that renders complex ideas accessible and useful for psychotherapeutic and analytic practice and as such will be essential reading for all those involved in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56517666963830,"sku":"9781583918791","price":53.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37506627_a4cda6a8-5f9e-416a-9835-c86c7a219160.jpg?v=1762101518","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781583918791-containing-states-of-mind","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}