Creating a Human Psychoanalytic Setting

This book looks at how psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in a variety of settings and can respect the individual experience and circumstances of each patient.

Dr Roger Kennedy is a consultant child psychiatrist, adult psychoanalyst, and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was an NHS consultant at the Cassel Hospital for 30 years and is now chair of the Child and Family Practice where he sees children and families. He has had sixteen previous books published on psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary studies, and child work, as well as many papers.

1. Introduction: Creating a human analytic setting 2. Becoming a Subject: Some Theoretical and clinical issues 3. Revisiting Subject Relations Theory 4. Presence and Absence in Early Experience 5. What are Fathers for? 6.A Severe Form of Breakdown in Communication in the Psychoanalysis of an Ill Adolescent 7. Becoming a Psychoanalyst - Which home to go to? 8. Loneliness, Solitude and the Analyst 9. Some psychoanalytic thoughts about incest 10. Struggling with Words: Aspects of the psychoanalysis of a borderline man 11. Outtakes: Extracts from Journal 1976-2025