A Rumor of Empathy: Resistance, Narrative and Recovery in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 10 Copyright......Page 11 Dedication......Page 14 Contents......Page 16 Acknowledgements......Page 20 List of figures......Page 21 Preface......Page 22 Fact or psychic reality......Page 28 Truth and construction......Page 30 Self-knowledge and cognitive impenetrability......Page 32 Hermeneutics and interpretation......Page 34 Suffering and psychotherapy......Page 37 Empathy and its inauthenticities......Page 41 The literature on “resistance to empathy”......Page 43 A unified multidimensional definition of the process of empathy......Page 49 One person’s empathy is another’s countertransference......Page 54 The resistance to empathy in the organization......Page 56 Clinical vignette: the Freud of psychiatric diagnosis—oops, I mean “fraud”......Page 59 Clinical vignette: speaking truth to power......Page 62 Clinical vignette: crashing the bike......Page 65 The therapist’s resistance to empathy......Page 69 Clinical vignette: dynamics of idealization......Page 74 The patient’s resistance to empathy......Page 78 Clinical vignette: a bother instead of a belonging......Page 83 Empathy and its discontents......Page 87 Language and speech acts......Page 92 Narrative and interpretation......Page 94 Description and redescription......Page 97 Interpretation and micro-narratives......Page 101 Micro-narratives and a rumor of empathy......Page 103 A rumor of empathy in Freud......Page 109 Narrative truth and historical truth revisited......Page 121 Kris’s personal myth as narrative truth and historical truth......Page 126 Narrative truth and historical truth in Pierre Janet......Page 127 The Oedipus complex and the original trauma = X......Page 130 From empathic narrative to optimal responsiveness......Page 132 Plato not prozac......Page 136 Examining the unexamined life......Page 137 The micro-narrative of a chemical imbalance......Page 141 From a rumor to a scandal of empathy in psychopharmacology......Page 149 A rumor of empathy on the inpatient unit......Page 155 Clinical vignette: redescribing youthful indiscretion......Page 156 Clinical vignette: redescribing saying “good bye”......Page 159 Clinical vignette: cultivating the tree of one’s sorrows......Page 162 Clinical vignette: a noticeable absence of trauma......Page 163 Prelude......Page 168 Why do men abuse and what to do about it......Page 173 Escape......Page 178 Safety......Page 180 The facts are fragile......Page 182 Acknowledgment of what happened......Page 184 Acknowledgment of what the survivor made it mean......Page 189 Clinical vignette: redescribing the skeleton in the closet: it’s crowded in there......Page 192 Boundaries: confrontation with shame, guilt, rage, negative emotions......Page 196 Clinical vignette: redescribing honor......Page 199 Expectation (realistic and otherwise) of compensation for suffering......Page 202 Clinical vignette: redescribing emotional balance......Page 206 Access to emotional resources, aspirations, ambitions, ideals......Page 209 Re-engage with the developmental process......Page 211 Risks: retraumatization, stuckness, endless looping, isolation......Page 216 Conclusion......Page 222 References......Page 225 Index......Page 236