Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA, is a board-certified training and supervising psychoanalyst for the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she teaches on the faculty and serves as Director of Training. In her private practice in Seattle, Dana engages in psychoanalysis with adults and parent-infant pairs, and offers clinical supervision and consultation to therapists seeking additional grounding in contemporary object relations psychoanalysis. Along with Caron Harrang, Dana co-chaired the organising committee for the 2014 International Evolving British Object Relations Conference, titled From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis. The resulting papers form the substance of this book.
Bion’s identification of reverie as a psychoanalytic concept has drawn attention to a dimension of the analyst’s experience with tremendous potential to enrich our interpretive understanding. The... (more)