The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter: v. 28 (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

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Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we fashion meaningful lives. His unique, iconoclastic perspective, which challenged the conventions of his time and professional milieu, not only engages the creative tension between the stance of the analyst and the stance of the healer, but also contains striking intimations of contemporary relational and interpersonal models of psychoanalytic treatment. The Healer's Bent, which thematically integrates published and unpublished papers and contains three chapters of heretofore unpublished autobiographical reflection, bridges analytic practice and other psychotherapeutic modalities. It will make McLaughlin's distinct approach to clinical theory and practice widely available to a broad and receptive readership.

The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter: v. 28 (Relational Perspectives Book Series) Review

This inspiring book gave me, for a short time, an insight into the personal and professional world of James McLaughlin and the zeitgeist of psychoanalytic training in the 1940's and 50's.

It seems to me that the book has been exquisitely crafted as he worked with his Editor, Bill Cornell. Together they shaped; "what was brought" in the form of the Author's personal history, his medical and psychoanalytic training: "What was taught" by his analysts supervisors and patients and then formulated such important questions such as "What There was Yet to Learn" by early an early case failure.

The book questions such premises as "is self analysis possible?" and offers profound reflections on transference, counter transference and enactment as processes, which it suggests, can no longer be thought of purely in terms of the patients pathology.

In his introduction McLauglin boldly writes of the `disturbing likeness between patient and analyst.' In this courageous and honest statement I see him emphasising that it is the taking this `disturbing likeness' seriously that leads to transformational healing in the clinical encounter. That these likenesses are often found in the solitude of the therapists' musings on the patients processes and then turned in the dyadic exchanges in the supervisory process and in disciplined disclosure between Therapist and Client.

In his writings there is a superb blend of provocation and humility as he invites us to consider

"What altruism is about: to give that flame not soon spent in the gust of primary passion, but as a steady breathing on. ..... the reliable inspiration that invites the uncertain flicker of the other to grow to a glow of its own when it is ready."

Psychotherapists or Psychoanalysts who read this book will be reminded of the both the immense privilege and tenderness involved in this work. James McLaughlin demonstrates the richness involved when both parties are searching through the complexities of intense relating.

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