Play Within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process

<p>In <em>The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process</em> Gil Katz presents and illustrates the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process. He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious continuously evolving dynamically meaningful process.</p><p>Using clinical examples including several extended case reports Gil Katz demonstrates how in all treatments a new version of the patient’s early conflicts traumas and formative object relationships is inevitably created without awareness or intent in the here-and-now of the analytic dyad. Within the enacted dimension repressed or dissociated aspects of the patient’s past are not just remembered they are re-lived. Katz shows how when the enacted dimension becomes conscious it forms the basis for genuine and transforming experiential insight.</p>