ABSTRACT
Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we fashion meaningful lives. His unique, iconoclastic perspective, which challenged the conventions of his time and professional milieu, not only engages the creative tension between the stance of the analyst and the stance of the healer, but also contains striking intimations of contemporary relational and interpersonal models of psychoanalytic treatment. The Healer's Bent, which thematically integrates published and unpublished papers and contains three chapters of heretofore unpublished autobiographical reflection, bridges analytic practice and other psychotherapeutic modalities. It will make McLaughlin's distinct approach to clinical theory and practice widely available to a broad and receptive readership.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |72 pages
Editor's Introduction
chapter |5 pages
To the Reader
chapter |9 pages
What Was Brought
chapter |22 pages
What Was Taught
chapter |18 pages
Transference, Psychic Reality, and Countertransference
part |44 pages
What Was Wrought: Self-Analysis
part |65 pages
What Was Sought: Nonverbal Communication
chapter |20 pages
The Play of Transference
chapter |17 pages
The Search for Meaning in the Unsaid Seen
chapter |25 pages
Touching Limits in the Analytic Dyad
part |40 pages
What was Thought: The Dialectics of Influence