Psychoanalytic thinking in occupational therapy : symbolic, relational, and transformative /

• Main Authors: Nicholls, Lindsey (Author), Piergrossi, Julie Cunningham (Author), Gibertoni, Carolina de Sena (Author), Daniel, Margaret A. (Psychotherapist) (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Subjects: Occupational therapy > Psychological aspects.; Psychoanalysis.; Occupational Therapy > psychology.; Psychoanalytic Theory.; Psychotherapy.; Electronic books.

This book explores the influence of psychoanalytic theories on occupational therapy practice and thinking. It incorporates a new conceptual model (the MOVI) to guide practice, which uses psychoanalysis as a theoretical foundation for understanding therapeutic relationships and the 'doing'...

Table of Contents:

• The therapeutic use of self in occupational therapy
• An occupational therapy perspective on Freud, Klein, and Bion
• The function of doing in the intermediate space : Donald Winnicott and occupational therapy
• Beyond Bowlby : exploring the dynamics of attachment
• Re-awakening psychoanalytic thinking in occupational therapy : from Gail Fidler to here
• MOVI : a relational model in occupational therapy
• Let the children speak
• Working with difference
• Psychoanalytic thinking in research methods
• Understanding the use of emotional content in therapy using occupational therapists' narratives
• Training experiences to develop psychoanalytic thinking
• The relational space of supervision.