Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide

Staying close to the clinical engagement of analyst and patient shows the transformative nature of the "finding" process as the dyad works with all aspects of the unconscious mind. This volume is a guide to the workings of the dyad and the therapeutic action of "finding" unconscious meanings. Attending to the analyst/ patient process of finding the derivatives of unconscious fantasy offers a potent roadmap for the way psychoanalytic engagement uncovers deep layers of the mind. Ellman and Nancy R. Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide uses the immediacy of clinical material to show how trauma becomes known in the "here and now" of enactment processes and accompanies the more symbolized narratives of transference and countertransference. Cases present the dramatic encounters between patient and therapist when confronting discovery of the unconscious in the presence of trauma and body pain, along with narrative. Unconscious fantasy has a central role in both clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis. Finding the unconscious meanings in states of trauma, body expressions, and transference/countertransference enactments becomes part

Paula L. Goodman, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington, DC Program and the International Psychoanalytic Association. She publishes on the topics of psychic trauma, female development, sadomasochism, and witnessing processes and is Director of the Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum, virtualpsychoanalyticmuseum.She maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Bethesda, M

Here, analysis lives."-Warren S. This publication has a decidedly international flavor and provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive view on the subject of unconscious fantasies, a dimension of the human psyche about which Psychoanalysis has developed a specific and absolutely unparalleled expertise."-Stefano Bolognini, President, International Psychoanalytical Association. I highly recommend this book."-Haydée Faimberg, author of The Telescoping of Generations."An essential text book for all psychotherapists and psychoanalysts on how to discover the unconscious fantasy in psychoanalytic treatment. This book may be read as a mystery novel with two smart detectives, Nancy R. This is analysis in vivo. The book will be a most valuable research and clinical reference, a real ‘workbook’ for all psychoanalytically oriented