Intimate Room

<p><em>The Intimate Room </em>provides an original exploration of psychoanalytic thought showing how contemporary psychoanalysis seeks to answer the challenges raised by today’s post-modern culture. </p><p>Offering a deeply personal and insightful reading of Bion this book acts as a stimulating guide to the development of the theory of the analytic field and both its technical and clinical implications. As such topics of discussion include:</p><ul> <li>the concept of the internal setting</li> <li>the rhetoric of interpretation </li> <li>the 'subversive' notion of Nachträglichkeit</li> <li>the role played by characters in analytic discourse</li> <li>the bi-personal field as virtual reality</li> <li>new concepts of transference. </li> </ul><p>Allowing the reader to engage with the inner space of analysis <em>The Intimate Room</em> will be of interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists and all those with an interest in the field of psychoanalysis. It will also be a useful tool in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work on a day-to-day basis. </p>