Clinical Storytelling Art And The Problems Of Being The Analyst's Necessary Vert

In a series of overlapping clinical essays-sometimes highly personal sometimes bristling with theory sometimes employing experimental writing-Jade Mc Gleughlin upends the ways we tell a psychoanalytic story. Tracing the evolution of her thinking the collection grapples with the problem of engaging patients when verbal representation fails. To do this Mc Gleughlin takes us inside some of her richest most surprising encounters with patients who have suffered severe trauma leading to a breach in the experience of self. Mc Gleughlin imagines how to meet patients in the breach. She then brings us along requiring the analyst's intense personal struggle to find and share the patients' experiences of liminality of terror of non-existence-to tolerate the vertigo of deep engagement with the other. Rather than leading with authority and the illusion of an autonomous self Mc Gleughlin offers storytelling that mirrors the work; her enactive writing dares to replicate the unsettling experience of the breach and invites readers to experience not only seeing but being seen. Drawing from film literature and art including her own paintings as well as extensive clinical experience this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts psychotherapists and anyone wanting to understand how communication in a clinical space can transcend the verbal. |Clinical Storytelling Art and the Problems of Being The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo