Partners in Thought Stern Donnel B. William Alanson White Institute and New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis New York City USA

Specifikacia Partners in Thought Stern Donnel B. William Alanson White Institute and New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis New York City USA

Building on the innovative work of Unformulated Experience, Donnel B. Stern continues his exploration of the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis with Partners in Thought.The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated experience are catalyzed by the states of relatedness in which the meanings emerge. In hermeneutic terms, what takes place in the consulting room is a particular kind of conversation, one in which patient and analyst serve as one another's partner in thought, an emotionally responsive witness to the other's experience. Enactment, which Stern theorizes as the interpersonalization of dissociation, interrupts this crucial kind of exchange, and the eventual breach of enactments frees analyst and patient to resume it. Later chapters compare his views to the