In the twelve years since the first edition of Talking With Patients was published, contributions from relational psychoanalysis and from neuroscience have been integrated into much of the work done by self psychologists. The relational focus on the impact of the treatment relationship on the psychoanalytic process, while implicit in self psychology, is made explicit in this new edition. Additionally, the concept of implicit memory, a contribution from neuroscience, has opened the door to new ways of understanding and dealing with patients who were severely abused as children. In the second edition of Talking with Patients, the author discuss how we are guided by non-verbal cues as much as by verbal ones, and continues to expand on the idea that therapists learn how to do therapy as much from their patients as from supervisors or theories.

About the Author
Sanford Shapiro is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in la Jolla, California.

Reviews
In Talking with Patients, Sanford Shapiro, like the best of mentors, takes his readers along with him as he recounts his own experience in learning to be a therapist, psychoanalyst, and supervisor. Each experience of learning theory and therapeutic approach is explained through richly informative clinical examples. Shapiro has mastered the art of presenting complex concepts (ego psychology, self psychology, intersubjectivity, control mastery, and relational theories) in language that is deceptively simple and easy to comprehend. -- Joseph Lichtenberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy a
The revised edition of Talking with Patients: A Self Psychological View of Creative Intuition and Analytic Discipline is a gem of a book....The author's voice, resonant with compassion, empathy and intuition, mirror what transpires in psychoanalytic therapy....This book will be of interest to both those entering the field as well as seasoned practitioners who seek a jargon free and user friendly understanding of the practice of contemporary psychoanalysis. -- Marilyn S. Jacobs, Ph.D., 2009 * Ivision Of Psychoanalysis *
A gem of a book....An addition to the literature that explains psychoanalysis clearly and concisely. We are indebted to Dr. Shapiro for taking the time to revise the previous edition. This book will be of interest to both those entering the field as well as seasoned practitioners who seek a jargon free and user-friendly understanding of the practice of contemporary psychoanalysis. * Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Newsletter *
Sanford Shapiro talks with his patients, tells us how he talks to his patients, and demonstrates this in the way he talks with the readers of the book. He leads us through his analytic training and thereby illustrates the theoretical and treatment obstacles he has overcome as well as how his personal and professional experience led him to embrace relational self psychology. In a deceptively simple style that conceals his breadth of knowledge, creativity, and clinical acumen, Sanford Shapiro really teaches us how to listen to our patients in the sensitive, self-reflective way in which he does. -- Frank M. Lachmann, Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and author of Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on E



Book Information
ISBN 9780765706232
Author Sanford Shapiro
Format Hardback
Page Count 134
Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Publisher Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 162mm * 17mm