The Ego at the Center of Clinical Technique (Critical Issues in Psychoanalysis #1) (Hardcover)
Engaging patients in the process of self-understanding and providing them with tools to continue therapeutic work is at the center of Fred Busch's clinical approach. Dr. Busch shows how therapists too often interpret more from what they understand rather than what the patient is ready to hear, and that many aspects of the psychoanalytic method have been geared more toward maintaining the analyst as omniscient and omnipotent observer rather than toward attempting to engage the patient's ego with the process. This important new work shows us how to change that perspective in order to work with patients as partners in a truly collaborative endeavor.
Dr. Fred Busch is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, where he received his psychoanalytic training. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellow-ship at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center. A frequent contributor to the psychoanalytic literature, Dr. Busch is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psycho-analytic Association. He is currently in the full-time practice of psychoanalysis in Ann Arbor, Michigan.