Further Learning from the Patient: The Analytic Space and Process

"I found this book quite remarkable and in several ways a significant advance on his previous effort. Casement begins by describing his personal background, he entered the ministry and then became a social worker before a psychoanalyst, all the time looking for a way of working with people that he could commit himself to. He describes his theoretical debts especially to Bion and Winnicott.

Casement then moves on to a very lengthy case study which he will refer to throughout the book.

After that for several chapters we get an indepth look at the phenomenon of transference, discussed in many further case studies which are analysed with great subtlety. I found these chapters shed a great deal of light on many experiences of mine both as a therapee and a therapist. i have never read anything which casts such an unassuming and yet brilliant light on the therapeutic relationship.

The final few chapters act mostly as a theoretical summary of the middle section. Casement weds the intense discipline of psychoanalysis with the patient and principled respect for the client of say Carl Rogers and the results are most instructive, even if we are unable to see anyone for three days a week ourselves. Don't miss it."
~ Written on 2007-08-02

"This is an excellent companion to Patrick Casement's earlier book On Learning from the Patient. In this book, the author speaks out against too much reliance on dogma and psychoanalytic theory, encouraging his fellow practitioners to allow the client as much freedom as possible within the analytic space. Although Casement is a psychodynamic therapist, he comes over as very person-centred, a sign that effective therapy may depend more on the therapist than on the theoretical framework he or she is operating from. If you found Patrick Casement's earlier book enlightening, you will certainly find this one of great value too."
~ Written on 2006-05-10