Secret Passages

<p><em>Secret Passages</em> provides a theoretical and clinical exploration of the field of psychoanalysis. It looks at the pivotal relationship between analyst and client and its importance to the psychoanalytic process. Offering a uniquely global perspective, Bolognini considers the different trends in contemporary psychoanalysis, charting a course between the innovative and traditional. </p><p>Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>plurality and complexity in the internal world</li> <li>the complex nature of psychoanalytic empathy</li> <li>from the transpsychic to the interpsychic.</li> </ul><p>Drawing on vivid clinical examples throughout, <em>Secret Passages</em> will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts, in particular those with an interest in gaining a more global theoretical perspective. </p> <p>Introduction. <strong>Part I: Three Prefaces to the Discussion.</strong> Freud’s "Objects": Plurality and Complexity in the Internal World and in the Analyst’s Working Self. Proposal for an Alternative Review of Therapeutic Factors: In the Margins of Gabbard and Westen's "Rethinking Therapeutic Action". Speaking of Things, Speaking of Words. <strong>Part II: Interpsychic Passages.</strong> The Intrapsychic and the Interpsychic. "Interpret-Action". My Dog Doesn’t Know Descartes: The Disenchanted Analysis of the "Interpsychic" Man-dog. The Psychosexuality of Mucous Membranes: Inter-body and Interpsychic. The Complex Nature of Psychoanalytic Empathy: A Theoretical and Clinical Exploration. The Glass Half Empty or Half Full: Dream Work and Oneiric Working Through. <strong>Part III: From the Transpsychic to the Interpsychic.</strong> Peleus’s Hug: Survival, Containment, and Con-viction in the Analytic Experience with Serious Pathologies. The Courage to Be Afraid. Trust in One’s Self: Pseudomaturity and Disarticulation Between Ego and Self in Panic Attacks. References. Index. </p>