Relational Conversations on Meeting and Becoming

Demonstrating a relational, dialogic way of thinking and writing, this book offers an innovative perspective on the human potential for intersubjective engagement and on the nature of true encounter.

Autorentext

Michal Barnea-Astrog is a senior Hakomi trainer and author of Carved by Experience (Karnac, 2017), Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Reflections on Gentleness (Routledge, 2019), and the novels Migration (Pardess, 2021) and The Coming Years (Shta'yim, in press).

Mitchel Becker is a clinical psychologist in private practice, lecturer at the Psychotherapy Programs of Bar Ilan University, and supervisor at the Psychotherapy Program of Tel Aviv University.

Inhalt

Foreword 1. First Dialogue: Creation and the True Other i. The Birth of a True Other ii. Meeting the Ultimate Other iii. In the Beginning There Was an Other 2. I Call Out to You: An Associative Trialogue 3. Second Dialogue: Becoming, Spaciousness, and Vitality i. Going on Being: On the Fear of Ceasing and the Need to Go On ii. Making Space for the Mess: The At-one-ment of Going On iii. The Echo Chamber Is Not Empty: On Limitation and Vastness, Spaciousness and Nourishment 4. Is Truth a Testimonial Process? The Need for a Testimonial Other for the Reestablishment of Truth and for Healing of Trauma: An Associative Trialogue i. Thinking Further: Trauma and Witnessing in the Context of the Verbal and Non-verbal Messages of Society, and the Relational Nature of the World 5. Third Dialogue: The Haiku Interpretation and the Chain of Caesuras i. In the Blink of an Eye: The Minimalist Interpretation ii. And You Said Mmhmm iii. In a Few Words 6. On "No Experience" With All My Heart and Soul: An Associative Trialogue Epilogue: The Clouds of Knowing