In this book, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field as abstract concepts, such as dissociation, intersubjectivity, and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones, like "Relational (K)not" and "Body Words," come alive through a vivid unfolding of analytic process.
You are invited into the mind of the analyst as she draws from reverie, memory, and affect to inspire offerings that enliven the moment, moving the analytic pair forward in affective freedom and self-definition. Body Words identify the subjective linkages we make to describe experiencing within and between self and other that leads us to know whether we or our patient are delivering the message in a manner that feels real. Each chapter illustrates how Pizer arrived at this important concept and others in a way that is full of rich, experience-near clinical moments that posed significant challenges.
Body Words and the Analyst's Use of Self is a rare window that allows readersnew and seasoned clinicians of various theoretical persuasionsto become intimate witnesses to the analyst's subjectivity and the creativity of the analytic partnership.
In this book, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field as abstract concepts, such as dissociation, intersubjectivity, and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones, like "Relational (K)not" and "Body Words," come alive through a vivid unfolding of analytic process.
Foreword by Donnel B. Stern
1. Introduction Reverie: In the Beginning
2.
When the Analyst is Ill: Dimensions of Self-Disclosure Reverie: A True Story
3. When the Crunch is a (K)not: A Crimp in Relational Dialogue
4. Passion,
Responsibility, and "Wild Geese": Creating a Context for the Absence of
Conscious Intentions
5. Narrative Writing and Soulful Metaphors: Commentary
on Paper by Barbara Pizer by Donnel B. Stern
6. "Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl":
Affect and Intuition in the Analytic Relationship
7. From Black Hole to
Potential Space: Discussion of Barbara Pizer's '"Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl":
Affect and Intitution in the Analytic Relationship" by Stuart A. Pizer
Reverie: A Motherless Child
8. Risk and Potential in Analytic Disclosure: Can
the Analyst Make "The Wrong Thing" Right? Reverie: I Wish That Life
9. The
Heart of the Matter in Matters of the Heart: Power and Intimacy in Analytic
and Couples Relationships Reverie: I'll Never Forget
10. A Clinical
Exploration of Moving Anger Forward: Intimacy, Anger, and Creative Freedom
Reverie: Sometimes People Have to
11. Maintaining Analytic Liveliness: "The
Fire and the Fuel" of Growth and Change Reverie: To Tell the Truth
12.
Trauma, Dissociation, and Disorganized Attachment: A Clinical Collage
Engaging Giovanni Liotti's Work Reverie: English Is My Mother's Second
Language
13. "Why Can't We Be Lovers?" When the Price of Love Is Loss of
Love: Boundary Violations in Clinical Context Reverie: Who Would Think
14.
Not-Me: The Vicissitudes of Aging Reverie: Whatever the Rewards of Childhood
15. Body Words: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process
16.
CodaBodies and Embodiment, 1963: The Person of the Analyst Final Reverie:
There Must Not
Barbara Pizer, EdD, ABPP, is faculty, personal and supervising analyst, and former board member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; assistant clinical professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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