Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo
Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Reihe: Relational Perspectives Book Series
ISBN: 978-1-032-67032-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
In a series of overlapping clinical essays—sometimes highly personal, sometimes bristling with theory, sometimes employing experimental writing—Jade McGleughlin upends the ways we tell a psychoanalytic story.
Tracing the evolution of her thinking, the collection grapples with the problem of engaging patients when verbal representation fails. To do this, McGleughlin takes us inside some of her richest, most surprising encounters with patients who have suffered severe trauma, leading to a breach in the experience of self. McGleughlin imagines how to meet patients in the breach. She then brings us along, requiring the analyst's intense personal struggle to find and share the patients' experiences of liminality, of terror, of non-existence—to tolerate the vertigo of deep engagement with the other. Rather than leading with authority and the illusion of an autonomous self, McGleughlin offers storytelling that mirrors the work; her enactive writing dares to replicate the unsettling experience of the breach and invites readers to experience not only seeing but being seen.
Drawing from film, literature, and art, including her own paintings, as well as extensive clinical experience, this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and anyone wanting to understand how communication in a clinical space can transcend the verbal.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface by Adrienne Harris The Introduction: On Being a Bricoleur Part One: Necessary Reach 1. The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo (2008/2011) 2. Love Letter to a Patient or the Raw Story (2001) 3. After Word(s) on Writing: We Always Tell it Slant—Clinical Stories Create Truths, Not Describe Them (2020) 4. After Word(s) on Technique: Necessary Reach (2009) 5. Two Case Vignettes: How Sarah Helped Me Help Troy and (almost) Christina (2013) Part Two: The Breach 6. Do We Find or Lose Ourselves in the Negative (2015) 7. Answering Gestures: Further Thoughts on "Do We Find Ourselves in the Negative?" (2015) 8. "When you are in the Cellar, am I Dead?": Understanding the Limits of Empathy and the Power of Otherness Through the Film Hiroshima mon amour (2020) 9. Interlude with Life and Death: Eulogy to my Stepfather (2016) 10. White Empathy (2021) Part Three: The Problem of Telling the Story of Another 11. The Promise of Radical Relationality in Elena Ferrante's Novels (2014) 12. Transgender Imagining and the Danger of Normative Theory (2019) 13. Thinking Outside the Oedipus Box (2021) 14. Translation: A Mother Story (2020) Part Four: The Negative 15. The Analyst's Necessary Nonsovereignty and the Generative Power of the Negative (2020) 16. The Impossibility of Meaning (2019)
