Secret Passages The Theory and Technique of Interpsychic Relations [Paperback]

Secret Passagesprovides a theoretical and clinical exploration of the field of psychoanalysis. It looks at the pivotal relationship between analyst and client and its importance to the psychoanalytic process. Offering a uniquely global perspective, Bolognini considers the different trends in contemporary psychoanalysis, charting a course between the innovative and traditional.

Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include:

• plurality and complexity in the internal world
• the complex nature of psychoanalytic empathy
• from the transpsychic to the interpsychic.

Drawing on vivid clinical examples throughout, Secret Passageswill be of great interest to all psychoanalysts, in particular those with an interest in gaining a more global theoretical perspective.

Introduction. Part I: Three Prefaces to the Discussion.Freuds Objects : Plurality and Complexity in the Internal World and in the Analysts Working Self. Proposal for an Alternative Review of Therapeutic Factors: In the Margins of Gabbard and Westen's   Rethinking Therapeutic Action . Speaking of Things, Speaking of Words. Part II: Interpsychic Passages.The Intrapsychic and the Interpsychic. Interpret-Action . My Dog Doesnt Know Descartes: The Disenchanted Analysis of the Interpsychic Man-dog. The Psychosexuality of Mucous Membranes: Inter-body and Interpsychic. The Complex Nature of Psychoanalytic Empathy: A Theoretical and Clinical Exploration. The Glass Half Empty or Half Full: Dream Work and Oneiric Working Through. Part III: From the Transpsychic to the Interpsychic.Peleuss Hug: Survival, Containment, and Con-viction in the Analytic Experience with Serious Pathologies. The Courage to Be Afraid. Trust in Ones Self: Pseudomaturity and Disarticulation Between Ego and Self in PanilÓo