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Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung delves into the mysteries of scandalous behavior- behavior that can seem shocking, unfathomable, or self-destructive - that is outrageous and offensive on the one hand, yet fascinating and exciting on the other. In the process, this anthology asks fundamental questions about the self: what the self is allowed to be and do, what must be disallowed, and what remains unknown.
Clinicians strive to know their patients' selves, and their own, as fully as possible, while also facing the inevitable riddles these selves present. Covering topics ranging from trauma, politics, the analyst's subjectivity, and eating disorders and the body, to self-revelation, secrets, evil, and boundary issues, a distinguished group of authors bring the theory, practice, and application of contemporary psychoanalysis to life. In doing so, they use psychoanalytic perspectives not only to illuminate struggles that afflict patients seeking treatment, but to shed light, more broadly, on contemporary human dilemmas.
This collection offers not a unified voice, but rather the sound of many, each in its own way trying to articulate the indescribable, the unwanted, and the off limits. It is a book that raises more questions than can be answered, complicates as much as clarifies, and contains the essential paradox of trying to talk about aspects of clinical and human experience that can never be fully seen or known. Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung offers invaluable reading to interested mental health professionals as well as to anyone intrigued by the secrets of the self.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION: by
Jean Petrucelli and Sarah SchoenPART I: KEYNOTE ADDRESSESCHAPTER 1 The unforbidden
Adam PhillipsCHAPTER 2 Far from the tree
Andrew SolomonPART II: THE TRAUMATIC FIELD: PSYCHOANALYTIC GROWTH AND THE GROWTH OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
CHAPTER 3 Reflections on the concept of "a traumatic field"
Philip M. Bromberg CHAPTER 4 Dissociative enactment and interpellation
Donnel B. SternCHAPTER 5 The traumatic field: psychoanalysis as trauma translated
Don TroiseCHAPTER 6 Trauma and psychoanalysis: hierarchies of suffering
Jack DrescherPART III: UTTERS FROM THE GUTTERS: POLITICAL LOYALTIES AND THE CLASH OF DEEPLY HELD VALUES IN THE CONSULTING ROOM CHAPTER 7 Political identity and countertransference
Steve TublinCHAPTER 8 The persistence of the past: legacies of homophobia in a gay male therapy dyad
Steven Botticelli CHAPTER 9 Ruffians, mavericks, bullies, and traders
Kenneth EisoldCHAPTER 10 Feminism in the consulting room
Melissa RitterPART IV:
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ANALYST'S SUBJECTIVITYCHAPTER 11 Commitment fears: why the analyst avoids analysis
Sarah Schoen CHAPTER 12 A dream as an internal enactment of trauma: the impact on the analyst's self
Sheldon ItzkowitzCHAPTER 13 Subjectivity and analysts' personal freedom
Irwin HirschPART V: BODY TYRANNY: HYPERAWARENESS AND HYPERDEADNESS WITH EATING-DISORDERED PATIENTS
CHAPTER 14 Fear, shame, courage: body-to-body interactions as we move towards untapped imperfection
.CHAPTER 15 What we talk about when we talk about food
Judith BrismanCHAPTER 16 "So must we to others call": anorexia, dissociation, and the analyst's neglect
Susan SandsCHAPTER 17 The anguished body
Susie Orbach PART VI: ON BEING NAKED: SELF-REVELATION, SECRECY, AND SHIFTING TRUTHS
CHAPTER 18
Dissociation among psychoanalysts about sexual boundary violations
Mark J. BlechnerCHAPTER 19 Seducing patients into treatment: when the naked truth feels too revealing
Sandra BuechlerCHAPTER 20 The "scandalous patient": disgust, fascination, and compassion
Sue KolodCHAPTER 21 The scandal within psychoanalysis itself
Paul Lippmann VII. UNSAFE SURPRISES: EVIL, MORTALITY, DIVERSITY, AND OTHER STRANGERS CHAPTER 22 Psychoanalysis, the uncanny, and the banalization of evil
Edgar A. LevensonCHAPTER 23 Hate and destruction at (and behind) our door
Emily A. KuriloffCHAPTER 24 Diversifying psychoanalysis: reasons and resistances
Anton Hart VIII. SILENCE AND PRIVACY: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE-- IN AND OUT OF THE CONSULTING ROOM CHAPTER 25 Silence in adolescent psychotherapy
Daniel Gensler CHAPTER 26 Privacy, self, and other: offline and on
Mary-Joan Gerson
About the author
Jean Petrucelli is director/co-founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service, faculty and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, adjunct clinical professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and editor of five books.
Sarah Schoen is faculty and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service, adjunct clinical professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and writes and teaches about contemporary clinical controversies.
Summary
Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung delves into the mysteries of scandalous behavior- behavior that can seem shocking, unfathomable, or self-destructive - that is outrageous and offensive on the one hand, yet fascinating and exciting on the other. In the process, this anthology asks fundamental questions about the self: what the self is allowed to be and do, what must be disallowed, and what remains unknown.
Clinicians strive to know their patients’ selves, and their own, as fully as possible, while also facing the inevitable riddles these selves present. Covering topics ranging from trauma, politics, the analyst’s subjectivity, and eating disorders and the body, to self-revelation, secrets, evil, and boundary issues, a distinguished group of authors bring the theory, practice, and application of contemporary psychoanalysis to life. In doing so, they use psychoanalytic perspectives not only to illuminate struggles that afflict patients seeking treatment, but to shed light, more broadly, on contemporary human dilemmas.
This collection offers not a unified voice, but rather the sound of many, each in its own way trying to articulate the indescribable, the unwanted, and the off limits. It is a book that raises more questions than can be answered, complicates as much as clarifies, and contains the essential paradox of trying to talk about aspects of clinical and human experience that can never be fully seen or known. Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung offers invaluable reading to interested mental health professionals as well as to anyone intrigued by the secrets of the self.
