{"product_id":"entering-night-country-stephanie-brody-9781138795266","title":"Entering Night Country: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience","description":"\u003cp\u003eNone of us will escape the experience of personal loss, illness, aging, or mortality. Yet, psychoanalysis seems to shy away from a discussion of these core human experiences. Existential vulnerability is painful and we all avoid this awareness in different ways. However, when analysts fail to explore the topic of mortality, their own and their patients, they may foreclose an important exploration and short-change patient and therapist. \u003ci\u003eEntering Night Country\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the existential condition, and explores how it penetrates professional lives, analytic work, and theoretical formulations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter explores this topic, shifting the lens from analytic process, to include theoretical assumptions, and professional communities. \u003cb\u003eStephanie Brody\u003c\/b\u003e shows how the analytic process is a journey, no less profound than the epic journeys depicted in the classic literature of Homer and repeated in the patient's own heroic and painful stories. Weaving literary references into the clinical experience of psychoanalysis, Brody reveals the transformative power of the analytic process for the patient and for the analyst. By relating the ancient past to our current struggles, psychoanalyst and patient together are guided to a destination, a life of meaning in the universe of possibilities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClinical vignettes and personal reflections intersect with motifs from the epic poems and fantasy fiction, where the despair of loss and trauma do not extinguish the wish for change and the search for intimacy. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntering Night Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e highlights the common themes that arise for patient and analyst as any person entering an unknown territory. It is intended for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, and mental health clinicians. It will also be accessible to those outside the clinical profession, even to individuals who have little understanding of psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie Brody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138795267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138795266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Stephanie Brody","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48622047985919,"sku":"9781138795266","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/entering-night-country-stephanie-brody-9781138795266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}