Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer

<p><em>Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer</em> is a detailed account of a particularly demanding analysis which Donald Meltzer closely supervised over twelve years. This will enable the reader to closely follow the internal life of a long-term trying analysis. The reader can see how Meltzer’s thoughts had crucially guided the course of this analysis in many of its most challenging moments often redirecting it. By watching things happening the reader is enabled to get a deeper insight into Meltzer's highly complex though outstanding thought. On many particularly important points the author invited Meltzer to give his thoughts and interpretations in his own words as if he himself was the analyst. This provides the reader with a unique opportunity to ‘listen’ to Meltzer <i>verbatim</i>.</p><p>Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer demonstrates the often overwhelming yet fascinating complexities of mental life and will speak to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as those interested in the philosophy of the mind.</p>