Unknowable Unspeakable and Unsprung

<p><em>Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung </em>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. <i>Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung</i> offers invaluable reading to interested mental health professionals as well as to anyone intrigued by the secrets of the self.</p> <p>INTRODUCTION: by <i>Jean Petrucelli and Sarah Schoen</i></p><p><b>PART I: KEYNOTE ADDRESSES</b></p><p>CHAPTER 1 The unforbidden <i>Adam Phillips</i></p><p>CHAPTER 2 Far from the tree <i>Andrew Solomon</i></p><p>PART II: THE TRAUMATIC FIELD: PSYCHOANALYTIC GROWTH AND THE GROWTH OF PSYCHOANALYSIS</p><p>CHAPTER 3 Reflections on the concept of "a traumatic field" <i>Philip M. Bromberg</i><b> </b></p><p>CHAPTER 4 Dissociative enactment and interpellation <i>Donnel B. Stern</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 5 </b>The traumatic field: psychoanalysis as trauma translated <i>Don Troise</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 6 </b>Trauma and psychoanalysis: hierarchies of suffering <i>Jack Drescher</i></p><p><b>PART III: UTTERS FROM THE GUTTERS: POLITICAL LOYALTIES AND THE CLASH OF DEEPLY HELD VALUES IN THE CONSULTING ROOM </b></p><p>CHAPTER 7 Political identity and countertransference <i>Steve Tublin</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 8 </b>The persistence of the past: legacies of homophobia in a gay male therapy dyad <i>Steven Botticelli </i></p><p><strong>CHAPTER 9 </strong>Ruffians, mavericks, bullies, and traders <i>Kenneth Eisold</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 10 </b>Feminism in the consulting room <i>Melissa Ritter</i></p><p>PART IV: <b>STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ANALYST'S SUBJECTIVITY</b></p><p>CHAPTER 11 Commitment fears: why the analyst avoids analysis <i>Sarah Schoen</i><b> </b></p><p>CHAPTER 12 A dream as an internal enactment of trauma: the impact on the analyst's self <i>Sheldon Itzkowitz</i><b>CHAPTER 13 </b>Subjectivity and analysts' personal freedom <i>Irwin Hirsch</i>PART V: BODY TYRANNY: HYPERAWARENESS AND HYPERDEADNESS WITH EATING-DISORDERED PATIENTS</p><p>CHAPTER 14 Fear, shame, courage: body-to-body interactions as we move towards untapped imperfection<i>.</i></p><p>CHAPTER 15 What we talk about when we talk about food <i>Judith Brisman</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 16 </b>"So must we to others call": anorexia, dissociation, and the analyst's neglect <i>Susan Sands</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 17 </b>The anguished body <i>Susie Orbach</i><b> </b></p><p>PART VI: ON BEING NAKED: SELF-REVELATION, SECRECY, AND SHIFTING TRUTHS</p><p>CHAPTER 18<i> </i>Dissociation among psychoanalysts about sexual boundary violations <i>Mark J. Blechner</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 19<i> </i></b>Seducing patients into treatment: when the naked truth feels too revealing <i>Sandra Buechler</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 20<i> </i></b>The "scandalous patient": disgust, fascination, and compassion <i>Sue Kolod</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 21<i> </i></b>The scandal within psychoanalysis itself <i>Paul Lippmann</i> </p><p><b>VII. UNSAFE SURPRISES: EVIL, MORTALITY, DIVERSITY, AND OTHER STRANGERS </b></p><p>CHAPTER 22 Psychoanalysis, the uncanny, and the banalization of evil <i>Edgar A. Levenson</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 23 </b>Hate and destruction at (and behind) our door <i>Emily A. Kuriloff</i></p><p><b>CHAPTER 24 </b>Diversifying psychoanalysis: reasons and resistances<b> </b><i>Anton Hart</i> </p><p><b>VIII. SILENCE AND PRIVACY: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE-- IN AND OUT OF THE CONSULTING ROOM </b></p><p>CHAPTER 25 Silence in adolescent psychotherapy <i>Daniel Gensler</i> </p><p><b>CHAPTER 26 </b>Privacy, self, and other: offline and on <i>Mary-Joan Gerson </i></p>