In The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process, Gil Katz presents and illustrates the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process. He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious, continuously evolving, dynamically meaningful process. Using clinical examples, including several extended case reports, Katz demonstrates how a new version of the patient’s early conflicts, traumas, and formative object relationships is inevitably created in the here-and-now of the analytic dyad.
Key Features
- Explores the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process.
- Demonstrates how repressed aspects of the patient’s past are re-lived.
- Provides clinical examples and extended case reports.
- Illuminates the process of gaining experiential insight.
Additional Information
Within the enacted dimension, repressed or dissociated aspects of the patient’s past are not just remembered; they are re-lived. Katz shows how, when the enacted dimension becomes conscious, it forms the basis for genuine and transforming experiential insight.
