SECRET PASSAGES - THE THEORY AND TECHNIQUE OF INTERPSYCHIC RELATIONS

Acknowledgments XI
Foreword XII
GLEN O. GABBARD

Introduction 1

Part One
Three Prefaces to the Discussion 5
1 Freuds objects: plurality and complexity in the internal world and in the analysts working self 7
2 Proposal for an alternative review of therapeutic factors: in the margins of Gabbard and Westens Rethinking Therapeutic Action 26
3 Speaking of things, speaking of words 44

Part Two
Interpsychi Passages 55
4 The intrapsychic and the interpsychic 57
5 Interpret-action 81
6 My dog doesnt know Descartes: The disenchanted analysis of the interpsychic man-dog 95
7 The psychosexuality of mucous membranes: inter-body and interpsychic 107
8 The complex nature of psychoanalytic empathy: A theoretical and clinical exploration 118
9 The glass half empty or half full: dream work and oneiric working through 138

Part Three
From the Transpsychic to the Interpsychic 159
10 Peleuss hug: survival, containment, and con-viction in the analytic experience with serious pathologies 161
11 The courage to be afraid 177
12 Trust in ones self pseudomaturity and disarticulation between ego and self in panic attacks 198

References 226
Index 239