A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter
By (author) Dorothy Hamilton
Paperback (Published)
(January 2021)
ISBN: 9781912567782
5.94 x 8.98 inches
Price: $28.00
In stock
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE – Elusive Beauty
CHAPTER TWO – Beauty Recognised
CHAPTER THREE – The Rise of the Aesthetic Perspective: Before Bion
CHAPTER FOUR – The Rise of the Aesthetic Perspective: Bion and Beyond (1)
CHAPTER FIVE – The Rise of the Aesthetic Perspective: Bion and Beyond (2)
CHAPTER SIX – David: Aesthetic Conflict
CHAPTER SEVEN – Beauty and Knowing (1)
CHAPTER EIGHT – Beauty and Knowing (2)
CHAPTER NINE – Mary: The Beauty of the Method
EPILOGUE
REFERENCES
- By (author) Dorothy Hamilton
This is a small book that tackles a huge subject. On the face of it, beauty in the context of psycho analysis should not be so monumental, particularly since, as the author’s survey of its place in the main canon of that subject (Freud, Klein et al.) reveals, it is rarely mentioned, and is only featured in the work of less well-known authorities such as Melzer, Likierman and Milner. For Hamilton, however, beauty is an intriguing iceberg of a topic, and exploration takes her well below the waterline. […] explores a theme of depth and complexity with admirable clarity.
— Isabel Clarke, Paradigm Explorer 2021/3
Hamilton’s book is wide ranging and fascinating, bringing in a plethora of quotations from an extraordinary variety of sources. She makes a strong case for beauty to be more widely recognized within the practice of psychoanalysis and lends her voice to those of Bion, Meltzer and Harris Williams in calling for psychoanalysis to be seen as an art form.
— Patricia Townsend, British Journal of Psychotherapy 38, 1 (2022) 176–200
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