Description
Psychoanalysis is often referred to a talking cure, but in this fascinating book it is the art of writing that is discussed and explored.
Including contributions from a selection of leading therapists, the book shines a psychoanalytic light on the very process through which the discipline is described. It includes chapters on the idea of creativity, the issues around a therapist’s subjectivity, the challenges of describing trauma, as well as those of co-authorship.
Psychodynamics of Writing will appeal to clinicians, therapists and anyone interested in what the process of writing means.
Table of Contents
- On writing – notes from an attachment-informed psychotherapist. Jeremy Holmes
- Finding a Creative Writing Space. Joyce Slochower
- A Letter Always Reaches its Destination. Stephen Frosh
- Becoming an author. Martin Weegmann
- Mad Desire and Feverish Melancholy: reflections on the
psychodynamics of academic writing. Nick Barwick - Clinical writing and the analyst’s subjectivity. Lawrence Spurling
- The transformative other: Some thoughts on the psychodynamics of co authorship. Ian S. Miller & Alistair Sweet
- The writer in the archive: trauma, empathy, ambivalence. Phil Leask
- An I for an I. Cheryl Moskowitz
- Configuring words. Joan Raphael-Leff
- Writing as rebellion. Morris Nitsun
- Raiding the inarticulate- the clinical case study & the representation of trauma. Maggie Turp
