Why Do We Interpret?

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Patrick Casement is a retired analytic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and training analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is the author of a number of seminal texts that have become required reading on many counselling and psychotherapy training courses. His first book On Learning from the Patient (1985) was an international best seller and introduced the concept of the ‘internal supervisor.

In his presentation Patrick will try to answer a number of questions about the craft of interpretation, such as: Who benefits? Whose mind is being expressed? Are we making connections or finding connections? How much is useful to say in an interpretation? What follows from an interpretation? and What is a patient responding to?