In Dramatic Dialogue, Atlas and Aron develop the metaphors of drama and theatre to introduce a new way of thinking about therapeutic action and therapeutic traction. This model invites the patient’s many self-states and the numerous versions of the therapist’s self onto the analytic stage to dream a mutual dream and live together the past and the future, as they appear in the present moment. The book brings together the relational emphasis on multiple self-states and enactment with the Bionian conceptions of reverie and dreaming-up the patient.
Key Features
- The term Dramatic Dialogue originated in Ferenczi’s clinical innovations.
- Patients and therapists dramatize and dream-up the full range of their multiple selves.
- Includes contemporary language of multiple self-states, waking dreaming, dissociation, generative enactment, and the prospective function.
- Rich description of contemporary clinical practice illustrated with numerous clinical tales.
- Inspired by Bion’s concept of "becoming-at-one" and "at-one-ment," calling for a return of the soul or spirit to psychoanalysis.
Additional Information
Along with Atlas and Aron, readers will become immersed in a Dramatic Dialogue, which the authors elaborate and enact. They advocate for the generative use of the analyst’s subjectivity, including a passionate use of mind, body and soul in the pursuit of psychoanalytic truth. Dramatic Dialogue will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
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