Livre - Patterns

"To all those brow-knitted surveyors of Bion and object relations theorists (and we are many) comes Marilyn Charles to clarify, interpret, elaborate, and apply in new ways the value of their contributions. In her characteristically gracious prose, Charles elucidates the essential patterns of psychic development, how these patterns become distorted and disrupted, and how therapy can be restorative. It is through these essential patterns, with their physical, affective, and linguistic dimensions, that meaning becomes progressively organized and abstracted. Our task as analysts is to decipher, convey, and interpret meaning to our patients. Although Charles does not venutre into neurophysiology, those with some knowledge of this field will appreciate the degree to which her pschoanalytic approach is consonant with what we are beginning to learn about brain function. It is no surprise, given the value Charles places on pre-and non-verbal patterns, that she reaches to comprehend the female body - and, similarly, given the valeu she places on language and prosody, that she does so through analyses of the work of female poets, notably Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath. Yet always the clinician, Charles remains clear-eyed about our work with patients. In Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience, she fulfills her mission, helping us to think about our work in new and surprising ways ".