From: Alexander Stein [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Re: FW: Therapists who need therapy?

consider also:

Joanna Field (nee Marion Milner).  1957.  "On Not Being Able to Paint"
NY:Putnam/Penguin.
Harold Searles. 1979. "Countertransference and Related Subjects: Selected
Papers" NY: IUP.
any of the works of Theodor Reik.

while not per se specific to "mental" illness [which is being defined how?],
further consider (culled from among numerous others):

Abend, S. M. (1982) Serious Illness in the Analyst: Countertransference
Considerations.  J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 30:365-379.
Schwaber, E. A. (1998) "Traveling Affectively Alone": A Personal Derailment
in Analytic Listening.  J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 46:1045-1065.
Feinsilver, D. B. (1998) The Therapist as a Person Facing Death: The Hardest
of External Realities and Therapeutic Action.  Int. J. Psycho-Anal.,
79:1131-1150.

alexander stein, mssc psya
new york
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| From:    Murray Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
| Subject: FW: Therapists who need therapy?
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| From: Melanie Peterson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
| Subject: Therapists who need therapy?
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| Dear Psyarters,
|
| I am working on a doctoral dissertation in which I'm
| exploring contemporary published narratives of mental
| illness.  One narrative "genre" that I would like to
| explore further is the psychiatrist's/therapist's
| narrative account of himself/herself as mentally ill
| patient while s/he is also serving as a mental health
| professional.
|
| At this point, I am having trouble finding a variety
| of these kinds of narratives and this seems to be a
| contemporary narrative trend that has been relatively
| unexplored.  I have found three texts that fit the
| bill so far: _An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and
| Madness_ by Kay Redfield Jamison; _Undercurrents: A
| Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression_ by
| Martha Manning; and (in conjunction with her later
| texts) Lauren Slater's _Welcome to My Country_.
|
| If you are aware of any other texts that might be
| relevant to this area of my study (even tangentially)
| I would greatly appreciate the info.  Any leads on
| useful secondary scholarship would be much appreciated
| as well.
|
| Many thanks,
| Melanie E. Peterson
| Texas Christian University
| Department of English
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