Book Review. Learning Along the Way: Further Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. by Patrick Casement

Abstract

Unless I am mistaken this is to be Patrick Casement’s final book and if I have got this wrong, then his book will help me think about what I might learn from my mistake.  Well, who might not make a slip faced with these, the final words of a psychoanalyst who has influenced generations of not only psychoanalysts but also psychotherapists, social workers, counsellors and arts therapists? In this sense the book could be read as a testament in which Casement reflects upon his life’s work and the essential questions and values that have driven his passionate commitment to psychoanalysis over the past fifty years.