Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment

In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical hour. Brown surveys the developments in theory and practice that follow from Freud’s original observations and traces this evolution from its conception to contemporary analytic field theory.

Brown emphasizes that these unconscious transformational processes occur spontaneously, in the blink of ...