ABSTRACT

Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others is a collection of the best works published over the past fifteen years in the Creative Literary Section of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, along with imaginative introductions by the author. Some writings are raw and honest, some are dark and access our primal being. Others, filled with beauty, illuminate the internal life, the playful mind, and unconscious doodlings that might otherwise remain unformulated.

chapter ONE|11 pages

Dreams as poetry

chapter THREE|14 pages

Love calls: a call for love

chapter FOUR|8 pages

Creativity and madness

chapter FIVE|7 pages

The art of Thomas Ogden

chapter SIX|13 pages

Letters to Dearest Mother from famous writers

chapter SEVEN|16 pages

Poetry by people in analysis

chapter EIGHT|7 pages

Voices out of New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina

chapter NINE|12 pages

Presence and absence

chapter TEN|10 pages

Emotional travel writing

chapter ELEVEN|8 pages

The unexpected poet: D. W. Winnicott

chapter TWELVE|12 pages

Mothers of the Milky Way Part One: poetry

chapter FOURTEEN|12 pages

Art brut—outsider art

chapter FIFTEEN|15 pages

Strong women's voices

chapter SEVENTEEN|14 pages

Ferenczi and relationality: on losing one's analyst