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This book is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen's two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm, the author addresses universal human concerns of madness and the difficulties of our emotional life.
List of contents
Foreword by Michael Eigen
Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction
Part One: Commentaries on The Psychotic Core
Commentary #1: The Core of Psychosis
Commentary #2: Hallucination, Idealization, and Wish-Fulfillment
Commentary #3: Hallucination, Megalomania, and Emotional Pain
Commentary #4: Phenomenology, Evasion, and the Primacy of Experience
Commentary #5: Mindlessness
Commentary #6: Boundaries
Commentary #7: Hate, Fear, and Aggression
Commentary #8: Hate, Self-Hatred, and the Death Drive
Commentary #9: Epistemology and Reversal
Commentary #10: Schreber and Rena
Commentary #11: The Psychotic Self
Commentary #12: Unintegration, Madness, Suicide, and Epilogue
References, Part One
Part Two: Commentaries on Emotional Storm
Commentary #1: Inside the Storm
Commentary #2: Emotional Storms
Commentary #3: More Emotional Storms
Commentary #4: Smiles and Screams
Commentary #5: No Amount of Suffering
Commentary #6: Somatic Storms
Commentary #7: Dream Images
Commentary #8: Killers within Life and Psyche
Commentary #9: Killers in Dreams
Commentary #10: Training Wheels
Commentary #11: The Binding
Commentary #12: Guilt, Suffering, and Transformation
Commentary #13: Guilt, Care, and Afterword
References, Part Two
About the author
Robin Bagai, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist in Portland, Oregon, who has been practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for over 35 years. His work has been published in two edited collections: The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis; and Healing, Rebirth, and The Work of Michael Eigen (both Routledge). Dr. Bagai has been leading in-person and international seminars on over a dozen of Michael Eigen’s books since 2014.
Summary
This book is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen’s two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm, the author addresses universal human concerns of madness and the difficulties of our emotional life.
