Body Words and the Analysts Use of Self

In this book, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field as abstract concepts, such as dissociation, intersubjectivity, and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones, like "Relational (K)not" and "Body Words," come alive through a vivid unfolding of analytic process.

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Barbara Pizer, EdD, ABPP, is faculty, personal and supervising analyst, and former board member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; assistant clinical professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Foreword by Donnel B. Stern 1. Introduction Reverie: In the Beginning 2. When the Analyst is Ill: Dimensions of Self-Disclosure Reverie: A True Story 3. When the Crunch is a (K)not: A Crimp in Relational Dialogue 4. Passion, Responsibility, and "Wild Geese": Creating a Context for the Absence of Conscious Intentions 5. Narrative Writing and Soulful Metaphors: Commentary on Paper by Barbara Pizer by Donnel B. Stern 6. "Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl": Affect and Intuition in the Analytic Relationship 7. From Black Hole to Potential Space: Discussion of Barbara Pizer's '"Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl": Affect and Intitution in the Analytic Relationship" by Stuart A. Pizer Reverie: A Motherless Child 8. Risk and Potential in Analytic Disclosure: Can the Analyst Make "The Wrong Thing" Right? Reverie: I Wish That Life 9. The Heart of the Matter in Matters of the Heart: Power and Intimacy in Analytic and Couples Relationships Reverie: I'll Never Forget 10. A Clinical Exploration of Moving Anger Forward: Intimacy, Anger, and Creative Freedom Reverie: Sometimes People Have to 11. Maintaining Analytic Liveliness: "The Fire and the Fuel" of Growth and Change Reverie: To Tell the Truth 12. Trauma, Dissociation, and Disorganized Attachment: A Clinical Collage Engaging Giovanni Liotti's Work Reverie: English Is My Mother's Second Language 13. "Why Can't We Be Lovers?" When the Price of Love Is Loss of Love: Boundary Violations in Clinical Context Reverie: Who Would Think 14. Not-Me: The Vicissitudes of Aging Reverie: Whatever the Rewards of Childhood 15. Body Words: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process 16. CodaBodies and Embodiment, 1963: The Person of the Analyst Final Reverie: There Must Not