Who's Behind the Couch?: The Heart and Mind of the Psychoanalyst

David Tuckett (United Kingdom), Jane Kite (United States) and Donald Moss (United States).. At a time when the relevance of psychoanalysis is challenged, personal reflections of the analyst enrich our understanding of the deep and meaningful relationship that illuminates the depth and vibrancy of psychoanalytic practice today.The interviewees featured are: Stefano Bolognini (Italy), Richard Waugaman (United States), Ilany Kogan (Israel), Rosemary Balsam (United States), Joseph Lichtenberg (United States), Werner Bohleber (Germany), Salman Akhtar (United States), Claudio Eizirik (Brazil), Nancy McWilliams (United States), Abel Fainstein (Argentina), Nancy Chodorow (United States), Gerhard Schneider (Germany). While this book will be of interest to practitioners, it should also be of interest to those considering or engaging in treatment. Raquel Berman (Mexico). Who's Behind the Couch?: The Heart and the Mind of the Psychoanalyst explores the analyst's mind at work, not so much from a theoretical perspective, but rather from the complexities and richness inherent in every moment-to-moment clinical encounter. What is it like to be a working psychoanalyst? And what is it like to be held in the mind of one? These were the questions that led Winer and Malawista to interv

Dr Winer is the author of Close Encounter: A Relational View of the Therapeutic Process and has written and presented extensively on film, the family, and other subjects of psychoanalytic interest. Malawista is a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and co-chair of New

The editors’ comments on each interview enrich this venture, relaunching debates about the impact of the analyst’s gender, cultural differences, trauma and memories, leaving also a space open for uncertainty." (Leticia Glocer Fiorini, former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association) . The opportunities for growth by both patient and analyst are movingly described, as are the misunderstandings that can make the work so difficult. These interviews with senior analysts show what personal struggles, feelings and creativities are necessary to help the analysand to find this shift, to make a “patient-centred” psychoanalytic technique, and to achieve t