The Past in the Present

David Mann is a consultant psychotherapist for an NHS Trust in Tunbridge Wells and also works in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor. His previous books include: Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship (1997), Erotic Transference and Countertransference (1999), and Love & Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2002).

The Past in the Present brings together, for the first time, contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect therapeutic practice.

Mann, Cunningham, Introduction. Mann, Enactments and Trauma: The Therapist¿s Vulnerability as the Theatre for the Patient's Trauma. Cunningham, Mutual Enactments Within the Therapeutic Relationship. Adams, The Abandonment: Enactments from the Patient¿s Sadism and the Therapist¿s Collusion. Harding, The Ghost at the Feast: Enactments of Cumulative Trauma in the Therapeutic Relationship. Cornell, Loves and Losses: Enactments in the Disavowal of Intimate Desires. Case, Action, Enactment and Moments of Meeting in Therapy with Children. Kenward, Bad Faith in Practice: Enactments in Existential Psychotherapy. Marsden, Knight-Evans, Tangled Webs: Enactments on an Inpatient Ward for Eating Disorders. Embleton Tudor, Tudor, Past Present: Person-Centred Therapy with Trauma and Enactment. Webster, The Therapist as a 'Bad Object': The Use of Countertransference Enactment to Facilitate Psychoanalytic Therapy. McDermott, Working with Refugees: An Enactment and Guilt. Wieland, Chronic and Acute Enactment: The Passive Therapist and the Perverse Transference.