ABSTRACT
A contemporary, wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. The twenty-eight essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured around and through knowing, not-knowing, and sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical practice, and theoretical considerations, they simultaneously attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How, they ask, do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves? The authors approach these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e.g., the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e.g., neurobiology).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|20 pages
Stalking the Elusive Mutative Experience
part II|41 pages
The Keynote Addresses
part III|69 pages
Dissociation—Clinical, Diagnostic, and Conceptual Perspectives ... from Murder through Abuse to Masochism
chapter FIVE|4 pages
Dissociative identity disorder: The abused child and the spurned diagnosis
part IV|41 pages
When Experience Has a Mind of Its Own
part V|75 pages
How Do We Know and How Does It Change? The Role of Implicit and Explicit Mind/Brain/Body Processes
chapter TWELVE|26 pages
The right brain implicit self: A central mechanism of the psychotherapy change process
chapter FIFTEEN|18 pages
Life as performance art: Right and left brain function, implicit knowing, and "felt coherence"
chapter SIXTEEN|7 pages
Bridging neurobiology, cognitive science and psychoanalysis: Recent contributions to theories of therapeutic action
part VI|43 pages
How Bodies Are Theorized, Exhibited and Struggled with and against: Gender, Embodiment, and the Analyst's Physical Self
chapter SEVENTEEN|11 pages
Lights, camera, attachment: Female embodiment as seen through the lens of pornography
part VII|38 pages
I Know Something about You: Working with Extra-Analytic Knowledge in the Analytic Dyad in the Twenty-First Century
chapter TWENTY ONE|10 pages
Double exposure ... Sightings of the analyst outside the consultation room
part VIII|37 pages
Omissions of Joy