The World Outside: Its Impact on the Treatment Setting / Ellen Ruderman -- The Erosion of the Sociopolitical Holding Environment and the Collapse of the Potential Space for Creative Repair / Jeffrey Applegate -- Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair Versus Attachment and Reorganization / Judith Kay Nelson -- Integrating the Internal and External Worlds of Clinical Social Work: A Philosophical and Political Search / Rosalyn Benitez-Bloch -- Virtual Intimacy in the Therapeutic Space: Help or Hindrance? / Carol Tosone -- What Happens to Confidentiality When the Government Enters the Treatment Room via the PATRIOT Act, HIPAA, and Managed Care? / Carole Bender -- A Perfect Storm: The Influence of Outside Forces on Social Work Education / Barbara Berger -- Silence in the Clinical Hour: A Time to Speak / Billie Lee Violette -- Real Experiences Revisited: The Significance of Attachment, Separation, and Loss in Adult Psychotherapy / Pat Sable -- Saving the World One Patient at a Time: Psychoanalysis and Social Critique / Jennifer Tolleson
Summary
"Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process. State-of-the-art psychodynamic theories will be applied to the understanding of how war, terrorism, politics, government regulations, and other environmental problems influence interactions between clinicians and their patients"--Provided by publisher
