Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments v Preface ix Foreword: Harold P. Blum x Introduction: Arthur A. Lynch xiv
Section I-Loneliness, Creativity and the Artists 1
1. "A voice comes to one in the dark. Imagine.":
Samuel Beckett's Search for Company-Lois Oppenheim 3
2. Artists' Solitude and the Creative Process-Danielle Knafo 15
3. The Skin I Live In-Arlene K. Richards 37
4. Forms and Transformations of Loneliness-Jeffrey Stern 49
Section II-The Clinical Dimensions of Loneliness 67
Shades of Loneliness: Psychological and Social Perspectives
-Lucille Spira 71
6. "Object Clarification" in the Treatment of Lonely
Heterosexual Men-Jerome S. Blackman 85
7. Exploring the Emergent Experience of Loneliness in Two
Men During Their Psychoanalytic Journey
-Anita Weinreb Katz 105
8. The Complex Nature of Loneliness-Arthur A. Lynch 123
9. Witnessing: Its Essentialness in Psychoanalytic Treatment
-Jenny Kahn Kaufmann and Peter Kaufmann 139
Section III-Loneliness/Solitude in the Psychoanalytic
Training Process 159
10. The Loneliness of the Candidate: Solitude and Solicited
Identifications-Jamieson Webster 161
11. Loneliness and Solitude in the Psychoanalytic Training
Process-From the Chair of the Supervising Analyst
-Douglas H. Ingram 181
12. The Loneliness of the Training Analyst-Eric Mendelsohn 195
13. There Is No Place Like Home-Sandra Buechler 211
Section IV-In Life Events 221
14. Loneliness and The Life Cycle-Brent Willock 225
15. Marilyn Monroe, the Loneliest Person on Earth
-Alma Halbert Bond 241
16. The Death of the Loved Spouse, the Inner World of Grief:
A Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspective-Patsy Turrini 253
17. A Soldier's Loneliness-Amit Goldenberg and
Nathan Szajnberg 271
Section V-Conclusion
18. Death is the God of Loneliness-Richard Gottlieb 287
Cumulative References 307
Contributors 321
