Damaged Bonds

by Michael Eigen

Overview

Damaged Bonds explores W. R. Bion's writings on dream-work growing within damaged bonds and concerns dramas revolving around difficulties in psychic digestion and clinical work in the trenches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367324032
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Eigen is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, and a Senior Member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a number of books, including Toxic Nourishment, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Feeling Matters and Flames from the Unconscious.

Table of Contents

Preface — Damaged Bonds — Introduction — Damaged Bonds—Damaged Dreams — Damaged bonds — Wounded nourishment — Damaged dream-work — The undreamable object — Work in the Trenches — Cameras — The world gets bigger — Filing insides — The need to kill oneself — Tinkering — Shivers — Afterdream

What People are Saying About This

Mark Epstein

In Damaged Bonds, Michael Eigen reveals himself as a soul doctor: a healer of souls, and a therapist with soul. In writing that is once feverish, buoyant and deeply soothing, he shows us the power and majesty that comes from a therapist’s openness and authenticity. I challenge you to read this and not burst with ecstacy.

Jessica Benjamin

In Damaged Bonds, Michael Eigen once again offers a uniquely vital vision of psychic life, centered on the paradox that that which makes us most alive and connected also renders us most vulnerable and fragile. Reading Eigen is an experience unlike that of reading any other psychoanalyst because he is able to speak from within an individual’s struggle with fear and desire, while drawing on the deepest insights of psychoanalytic theory. Listening to his voice, compassionate and wise, transforms us – a voice that transcends the conventional Them and Us of therapist and patient, it takes us straight into the I and Thou of recognition, where self and other suffer and learn together.