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HAROLD SEARLES: LIFELONG WORK OF A MASTER CLINICIAN

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Harold F. Searles was one of the most gifted and innovative clinicians of psychoanalysis. His clinical work arouses interest on its own merit, as well as for the ways in which it shaped his highly innovative thinking. We can only imagine what special processes were developing in Searles’s inner world under the everlasting impact of his experience with psychotic patients and from his life in general. Searles focused extensively on how the psychotic individuals’ mental distortions impacted their capacity to form personal relationships in general, and the role of the analyst and countertransference in treatment. This unique viewpoint helped him sustain a creative commitment to psychotic patients, regarded by many as unsuitable for psychoanalysis.

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  • 27 July 2018

    Unfortunately the name of the author was given incorrectly. It should be read: Francisco Balbuena. We apologize for this mistake.

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Balbuena, F. HAROLD SEARLES: LIFELONG WORK OF A MASTER CLINICIAN. Am J Psychoanal 78, 287–306 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-018-9143-8

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