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Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Homelessness.

  • Published In: Psychoanalytic Review, 2024, v. 111, n. 2. P. 135 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Luepnitz, Deborah Anna; Debiak, Dennis M. 3 of 3

Abstract

Psychoanalysis is often viewed as a practice relevant only to educated people of means. This article describes a project that matches psychoanalytically trained clinicians with unhoused and formerly unhoused adults in a large urban community. D. W. Winnicott's ideas about impingement, the holding environment, fear of breakdown, and careful monitoring of the analyst's interiority have proven to be most valuable theoretical and clinical tools. A decade-long case example demonstrates the challenges and healing potentials of the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Psychoanalytic Review. 2024/06, Vol. 111, Issue 2, p135
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Psychology
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0033-2836
  • DOI:10.1521/prev.2024.111.2.135
  • Accession Number:178235995
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