Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing [Hardcover]

Dialogues with Michael Eigen spans 20 years of diverse interviews and interactions with the acclaimed psychologist Michael Eigen, including interlocutors from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Sweden, Israel, and the United States, published together for the first time.

This book explores the importance of soul reveries, psychoanalytic prayers , and cultivation of psychoanalytic faith in Eigens work. The dialogues lay out Eigens privileging of emotions as messengers in need of recognition, as welcoming inner gestures for incubation, enabling a deep vitalizing contact of being with oneself and others. Eigen reminds us that struggling with ones personality remains a life-long task, exposing us to various existential sufferings, agonies, traumas, and losses in need of soul confession, if not analytic prayer.

The book seeks to help readers find, touch, and work with emotional realities a little better and support a growing intimate, creative relation to ourselves. The rich explorations of the interviews and interactions with Eigen help contribute to further appreciation of our experiential life and worlds it opens. Building on his work on mindbodysoul connections, Dialogues with Michael Eigen is an essential book for anyone interested in the spiritual side of psychoanalysis.

About the author

About the editor

Preface: Soul to soul: living with Michael Eigen

Preface: So many voices within a voice

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Meeting Michael Eigen: a personal reverie

Emotions as messengers

1 Demons and wounds

2 Emotional transmissions and fluctlÓr