Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work

Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work elaborates a differential theory of therapeutic engagement with full reference not only to psychoanalysis and to psychotherapy but also - surprisingly - to social work.When contemporary social work with the marginalised achieves mutual constructive collaboration, social workers characteristically notice an unfolding process.Could this correspond to the ‘analytic process’ of psychoanalysis?Sylvia O’Neill seeks to explain theoretically, and to illustrate clearly in practice, just how a quasi-autonomous therapeutic process becomes established.The theory underpinning the book is Jean-Luc Donnet’s conceptualisation of the establishment of the analytic process in psychoanalysis through introjection of the analytic setting.Donnet designates the psychoanalytic setting as the analytic ‘site’.O’Neill proceeds to trace, by means of detailed clinical discussion, the analogous process by which a viable therapeutic process can bec