Emotional understanding
Subtitle: studies in psychoanalytic epistemology
By: Donna M. Orange.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and philosophy.; Comprehension (Theory of knowledge); Comprehension.
Description: With a unique blend of clinical compassion and philosophical reflection, Donna M. Orange illuminates the nature and process of psychoanalytic understanding within the intimate and healing human context of treatment. Moving away from objectivist empiricism and its polar opposite, constructivist relativism, her work details a paradigm shift to a perspectival realism that does justice to the concerns of both.

Laying the groundwork for a fuller, more encompassing view of psychoanalytic practice, Emotional Understanding is enlightening reading for all mental health professionals interested in psychodynamic theory and treatment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.