ABSTRACT

The author relates the stories of two patients reshaping their lives into something they could believe in, and examines the complex roles of the therapist and therapy, self/other and mind/body relations, and the dramatic interplay of faith and catastrophe.

chapter One|22 pages

Bits of the Processing Puzzle

chapter Two|38 pages

Defining Moments in Les’s Therapy

chapter Three|49 pages

Key Stages in Lynn’s Therapy

chapter Four|17 pages

Self-Other

chapter Five|20 pages

Mind-Body

chapter Sive|24 pages

Faith and Catastrophe

chapter Seven|21 pages

Primary Process and the Wound That Never Heals