On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field [Paperback]

1. Introduction: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field??Part One: The Formulation of Experience in the Clinical Situation? 2. On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Witnessing and the Formulation of Experience? 3. Distance and Relation: Emerging from Embeddedness in the Other? 4. Interpretation: Voice of the Field? 5. Feels Like Me: Formulating the Embodied Mind? 6. How Does History Become Accessible? Reconstruction as an Emergent Product of the Interpersonal Field? 7. How I Work with Unconscious Process, Part 1: A Case Example? 8. How I Work with Unconscious Process, Part 2: The Emergence of Meaning from Unformulated Experience??Part Two: Dissociation??9. Dissociation and Unformulated Experience: A Psychoanalytic Model of Mind? 10. Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and?Nachtr?glichkeit? 11. Dissociative Multiplicity and Unformulated Experience: Commentary on Diamond? 12. Dissociative Enactment and Interpellation? 13. From Interpersonal Field to Mind in the Work of Philip M. Bromberg??Part Three: Comparative Studies? 14. Field Theory and the Dream Sense: Continuing the Comparison of Interpersonal/Relational Theory and Bionian Field Theory? 15. Otherness within Psychoanalysis: On Recognizing the Critics of Relational Psychoanalysis? 16. Can There be a Psychoanalysis Without Unconscious Phantasy? Unformulated Experience and the Multiple Self

This book is Donnel B. Stern's latest contribution to the kind of understanding of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory.

'With incisive sensitivity and elegance of expression, Donnel B. Stern brilliantly defines, integrates and deepens our understanding of a cohesive relationalist view of what it means to be a person, a person in essence ever a part of the fabric of human connectedness. His clinical illustrations are alive, his insightful consideration of the implicationslã"