Coming to Life in the Consulting Room

Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls epistemological psychoanalysis (having to do with knowing and understanding) to ontological psychoanalysis (having to do with being and becoming). Ogden clinically illustrates his way of dreaming the analytic session and of inventing psychoanalysis with each patient.

Key Features

• Explores the shift in analytic theory and practice.
• Utilises the works of Winnicott and Bion.
• Discusses the transition from viewing mind as a thing to a living process.
• Includes discussions on poetry by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.

Additional Information

This book will be of great interest not only to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in the shift in analytic theory and practice Ogden describes, but also to those interested in ideas concerning the way the mind and human experiencing are created.