New Book: Ruth E Jones - Foreshoring the Unconscious: Living Psychoanalytic Practice

Ruth E Jones - Foreshoring the Unconscious: Living Psychoanalytic Practice
http://www.psychoanalyticpractice.co.uk/

This short, readable, intelligent book, is one of a growing number of essays now being written in response to the threat posed by current regulatory thinking. As this kind of practice is threatened with extinction, Ruth Jones writes about what she does and why she does it. She is a psychoanalytic therapist who reminds us that working psychoanalytically is not without humour, not without a relation to science, and not the business of an elite. Drawing on her experience in quantum physics and the Medway foreshore Ruth makes use of images and metaphors to expose the essence of an encounter between two people, one of whom wants to know what is going wrong in their life, the other who is 'sitting back', 'holding open' and who is vitally alive to living. This short book answers the question 'what exactly is it that you do?' not only for someone thinking of finding a therapist, but also for anyone who is curious about the distinctiveness of contemporary psychoanalysis. It simply shows how the current fetish for centralised control either of data or of practitioners is essentially misguided, highly destructive, and extravagantly inefficient. Click here to buy it (£10 including P&P), then sit down and read it - it is an important part of the struggle. .