ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores and expands on ideas that have long been at the heart of the clinical work, from the very beginning of the therapeutic work with patients. It describes the evolution of the theoretical-clinical psychoanalytic approach over the years, and the kind of knowledge, experience, and powerful effects that come into being when the analyst interconnects psychically with the patient in living through the process. The book also explores and grasps the true experiential scope and therapeutic significance of working within this fundamental dimension of analytic presence and interconnectedness, with the emergence of analytic oneness and its various, sometimes most radical, expressions. It addresses the radical departure of Donald W. Winnicott’s and late Wilfred R. Bion’s theoretical-clinical ideas from traditional psychoanalytic work, introducing a revolutionary change in clinical psychoanalysis—a transition from “extension” to “scientific revolution,” and “paradigm change or paradigm shift”.
