Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy Symbolic, Relational and Transformative

This book is the first to use psychoanalysis as a basis for exploring how occupational therapists do their work, and it incorporates a new conceptual model to guide practice. The authors emphasize the role of the unconscious in all that people do and are, and argue that activities (or occupations) are simultaneously real (i.e. tangible) and symbolic. Ideal for academic and clinical occupational therapists, this book will also appeal to psychotherapists.

Foreword by Sheena Blair

Foreword by Paul Hoggett

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Section 1 Psychoanalytic Theory Interwoven with Occupational Therapy

2 The ‘Therapeutic Use of Self’ in Occupational Therapy

3 An Occupational Therapy Perspective on Freud, Klein and Bion

4 The Function of ‘Doing’ in the Intermediate Space: Donald Winnicott and Occupational Therapy

5 Beyond Bowlby: Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment

6 Re-awakening Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy: From Gail Fidler to Here

Section 2 Psychoanalytic Occupational Therapy: A Relational Practice Model and Illuminating Theory in Clinical Practice

7 MOVI: A Relational Model in Occupational Therapy

8 Let the Children Speak

9 Working with Difference

Section 3 Further Psychoanalytic Thinking: Research and Training

10 Psychoanalytic Thinking in Research

11 Understanding the Use of Emotional Content in Therapy Using Occupational Therapists’ Narratives

12 Training Experiences to Develop Psychoanalytic Thinking

13 The Relational Space of Supervision

Index

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