{"product_id":"clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory-9780998531854","title":"Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClinical Encounters in Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e makes an intervention into the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and sexuality studies, in an effort to think about a range of issues relating to sexuality from a clinical psychoanalytic perspective. This book concentrates on a number of concepts, namely identity, desire, pleasure, perversion, ethics and discourse. The editors, Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson, have chosen queer theory, a sub-field of sexuality studies, as an interlocutor for the clinical contributors, because it is at the forefront of theoretical considerations of sexuality, as well as being both reliant upon and suspicious of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and discourse. The book brings together a number of psychoanalytic schools of thought and clinical approaches, which are sometimes at odds with one another and thus tend not to engage in dialogue about divisive theoretical concepts and matters of clinical technique. Traditions represented here include: Freudian, Kleinian, Independent, Lacanian, Jungian, and Relational. The volume also stages, for the first time, a sustained clinical psychoanalytic engagement with queer theory. By virtue of its editorial design, this book aims to foster a self-reflective attitude in clinical readers about sexuality which historically has tended toward reification. The central questions we present to readers to think about are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat are the discourses of sexuality underpinning psychoanalysis, and how do they impact on clinical practice?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn what ways does sexuality get played out for, and between, the psychoanalytic practitioner and the patient?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do social, cultural and historical attitudes towards sexuality impact on the transference and countertransference, consciously and unconsciously?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy is sexuality so prone to reification?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into three sections, \u003ci\u003eClinical Encounters in Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e begins with six chapters on important themes in queer theory: identity, desire, perversion, pleasure, discourse and ethics. Section two includes fourteen responses to the chapters in section one by practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists from a number of traditions. They work with adults and\/or children and adolescents. Section three features seven short commentaries on the nature of the encounters enacted by the book, by leading thinkers whose own clinical practice and\/or theoretical work engages directly with both discourses: psychoanalytic and queer. The book is edited by two psychoanalytic practitioners - one Kleinian, one Freudian-Lacanian - who also have research expertise in sexuality studies. All pieces are new and have been commissioned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoreen Giffney works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Dublin, Ireland. She also provides supervision to clinical practitioners conducting research in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She is the convener of Psychoanalysis +, an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together clinical, academic and artistic approaches to, and applications of, psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eve Watson works in Dublin as a psychoanalytic practitioner, clinical supervisor and academic. She is involved in teaching and training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and teacher education. She writes on psychoanalysis, sexuality studies, critical psychology, poetics, film and critical theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punctum Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50331892810002,"sku":"9780998531854","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_414819bc-985a-414e-94a8-1c292717dbcf.jpg?v=1727827383","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory-9780998531854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}