Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on truth, scandal, secrets, and lies / Edition 1

by Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen

Overview

Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung delves into the mysteries of scandalous behavior- behavior that can seem shocking, unfathomable, or self-destructive - that is outrageous and offensive on the one hand, yet fascinating and exciting on the other. In the process, this anthology asks fundamental questions about the self: what the self is allowed to be and do, what must be disallowed, and what remains unknown.

Clinicians strive to know their patients’ selves, and their own, as fully as possible, while also facing the inevitable riddles these selves present. Covering topics ranging from trauma, politics, the analyst’s subjectivity, and eating disorders and the body, to self-revelation, secrets, evil, and boundary issues, a distinguished group of authors bring the theory, practice, and application of contemporary psychoanalysis to life. In doing so, they use psychoanalytic perspectives not only to illuminate struggles that afflict patients seeking treatment, but to shed light, more broadly, on contemporary human dilemmas.

This collection offers not a unified voice, but rather the sound of many, each in its own way trying to articulate the indescribable, the unwanted, and the off limits. It is a book that raises more questions than can be answered, complicates as much as clarifies, and contains the essential paradox of trying to talk about aspects of clinical and human experience that can never be fully seen or known. Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung offers invaluable reading to interested mental health professionals as well as to anyone intrigued by the secrets of the self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138689008
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/09/2016
Series:	Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jean Petrucelli is director/co-founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service, faculty and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, adjunct clinical professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and editor of five books.

Sarah Schoen is faculty and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service, adjunct clinical professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and writes and teaches about contemporary clinical controversies.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: by Jean Petrucelli and Sarah Schoen

PART I: KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

CHAPTER 1 The unforbidden Adam Phillips

CHAPTER 2 Far from the tree Andrew Solomon

PART II: THE TRAUMATIC FIELD: PSYCHOANALYTIC GROWTH AND THE GROWTH OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

CHAPTER 3 Reflections on the concept of "a traumatic field" Philip M. Bromberg

CHAPTER 4 Dissociative enactment and interpellation Donnel B. Stern

CHAPTER 5 The traumatic field: psychoanalysis as trauma translated Don Troise

CHAPTER 6 Trauma and psychoanalysis: hierarchies of suffering Jack Drescher

PART III: UTTERS FROM THE GUTTERS: POLITICAL LOYALTIES AND THE CLASH OF DEEPLY HELD VALUES IN THE CONSULTING ROOM

CHAPTER 7 Political identity and countertransference Steve Tublin

CHAPTER 8 The persistence of the past: legacies of homophobia in a gay male therapy dyad Steven Botticelli

 CHAPTER 9 Ruffians, mavericks, bullies, and traders Kenneth Eisold

CHAPTER 10 Feminism in the consulting room Melissa Ritter

PART IV: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ANALYST'S SUBJECTIVITY

CHAPTER 11 Commitment fears: why the analyst avoids analysis Sarah Schoen

CHAPTER 12 A dream as an internal enactment of trauma: the impact on the analyst's self Sheldon Itzkowitz

CHAPTER 13 Subjectivity and analysts' personal freedom Irwin Hirsch

PART V: BODY TYRANNY: HYPERAWARENESS AND HYPERDEADNESS WITH EATING-DISORDERED PATIENTS

CHAPTER 14 Fear, shame, courage: body-to-body interactions as we move towards untapped imperfection.

CHAPTER 15 What we talk about when we talk about food Judith Brisman

CHAPTER 16 "So must we to others call": anorexia, dissociation, and the analyst's neglect Susan Sands

CHAPTER 17 The anguished body Susie Orbach

PART VI: ON BEING NAKED: SELF-REVELATION, SECRECY, AND SHIFTING TRUTHS

CHAPTER 18 Dissociation among psychoanalysts about sexual boundary violations Mark J. Blechner

CHAPTER 19 Seducing patients into treatment: when the naked truth feels too revealing Sandra Buechler

CHAPTER 20 The "scandalous patient": disgust, fascination, and compassion Sue Kolod

CHAPTER 21 The scandal within psychoanalysis itself Paul Lippmann

VII. UNSAFE SURPRISES: EVIL, MORTALITY, DIVERSITY, AND OTHER STRANGERS

CHAPTER 22 Psychoanalysis, the uncanny, and the banalization of evil Edgar A. Levenson

CHAPTER 23 Hate and destruction at (and behind) our door Emily A. Kuriloff

CHAPTER 24 Diversifying psychoanalysis: reasons and resistances Anton Hart

VIII. SILENCE AND PRIVACY: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE— IN AND OUT OF THE CONSULTING ROOM

CHAPTER 25 Silence in adolescent psychotherapy Daniel Gensler

CHAPTER 26 Privacy, self, and other: offline and on Mary-Joan Gerson