Empathy, our ability to understand and connect emotionally with others, is the key to our emotional well being. Our brains are hard wired to understand others and to seek understanding and attunement from our loved ones. Unfortunately, our past experiences of disrupted attachment or emotional trauma can interfere with our ability to provide and receive empathy.
My approach to psychotherapy, rooted in contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis, seeks to repair our capacity to find, maintain, and provide empathic connections to others. This approach works well with both couples and individuals. Many of my couples clients feel that they are able to grow as individuals through the therapy process, overcoming lifelong self-defeating patterns.
And in the safety of an emphatically attuned therapeutic relationship, individual clients can heal past traumas and find the capacity to grow into the self they want to be. David Shaddock PhD, MFT has over forty years of experience as a psychotherapist. He is is an internationally known expert on relationships who has taught and lectured in Israel, Italy, Mexico and Chile.
My approach to psychotherapy, rooted in contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis, seeks to repair our capacity to find, maintain, and provide empathic connections to others. This approach works well with both couples and individuals. Many of my couples clients feel that they are able to grow as individuals through the therapy process, overcoming lifelong self-defeating patterns.
And in the safety of an emphatically attuned therapeutic relationship, individual clients can heal past traumas and find the capacity to grow into the self they want to be. David Shaddock PhD, MFT has over forty years of experience as a psychotherapist. He is is an internationally known expert on relationships who has taught and lectured in Israel, Italy, Mexico and Chile.
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Poetry and Psychoanalysis explores the lessons that poetry offers to the art of emotional healing.
It includes a survey of literature from Virgil to Dante to Caludia Rankine, as well as the lesson from poems about children and poems that are difficult to understand rationally.
It is of interest both to poetry readers and therapists.
From the parking Lot at Costco to the summit of the Sierra Nevada, these poems detail a quest to find the spiritual in our lived lives.
Drawing from Jewish mysticism and other sources, the book opens a path for both seekers and lovers of poetry.
It includes a survey of literature from Virgil to Dante to Caludia Rankine, as well as the lesson from poems about children and poems that are difficult to understand rationally.
It is of interest both to poetry readers and therapists.
From the parking Lot at Costco to the summit of the Sierra Nevada, these poems detail a quest to find the spiritual in our lived lives.
Drawing from Jewish mysticism and other sources, the book opens a path for both seekers and lovers of poetry.
Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field does, in fact, open our field.
It opens our capacity to use our imagination in our work, indeed our lives, as psychotherapists.
Poetry is the key to that opening.
In Shaddock's hand the poetry is not 'applied' to therapy, rather it inspires.
I wouldn't have imagined I could read a book that would teach me something new both about psychoanalysis (especially about how the analyst listens) and about poets I have lived with for decades, Dante, Blake.
It opens our capacity to use our imagination in our work, indeed our lives, as psychotherapists.
Poetry is the key to that opening.
In Shaddock's hand the poetry is not 'applied' to therapy, rather it inspires.
I wouldn't have imagined I could read a book that would teach me something new both about psychoanalysis (especially about how the analyst listens) and about poets I have lived with for decades, Dante, Blake.
From the pure light of the High Sierra to sandwich wrappers blown against a chain fence, David Shaddock has the visionary ability to see, everywhere, the numinosity of what surrounds us.
This empowers him to approach also the Holy within the deep tangled griefs of our lives.
David Shaddock discovers splendor in the mundane.
By the power of his lyrical imagination, he liberates the divine sparks trapped within their material shells.
Thereby he translates the ancient wisdom of Jewish spirituality into a scintillating modern idiom for contemporary readers and seekers.
This empowers him to approach also the Holy within the deep tangled griefs of our lives.
David Shaddock discovers splendor in the mundane.
By the power of his lyrical imagination, he liberates the divine sparks trapped within their material shells.
Thereby he translates the ancient wisdom of Jewish spirituality into a scintillating modern idiom for contemporary readers and seekers.
The central theme of this book is inclusion--in particular the inclusion of the therapist's own subjectivity as a constituent part of the patient's ongoing psychological life and the inclusion of the patient's intimate relationships as part of the focus of psychotherapy.
At a more general level, it is about the inclusion of ever-widening contexts, historical, relational, and societal in our understanding of personal experience.
Twentieth century science, in narrowing its gaze to isolated atoms and genes, brought us remarkable gifts.
At a more general level, it is about the inclusion of ever-widening contexts, historical, relational, and societal in our understanding of personal experience.
Twentieth century science, in narrowing its gaze to isolated atoms and genes, brought us remarkable gifts.
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