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Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Narrative in Psychoanalysis: The Creation of Intimate Fictions

Author(s) : Joye Weisel-Barth

Reviews and Endorsements

"In describing the analytic process as "intimate fiction", Joye Weisel-Barth, writing about her clinical work like a good novelist, captures why I have for years avoided reading much of the psychoanalytic literature and embraced in its stead, contemporary novels. Perhaps it takes someone like Dr. Weisel-Barth and her background in literature, to bring to life what actually transpires in the intersubjective clinical situation, unencumbered by allegiances and obeisance to jargon-filled and overly intellectualized theoretical religions. I hope that this rich and vital book serves as an exemplar, inspiring a new era of readable and vivid psychoanalytic writing."
- Irwin Hirsch ,PhD, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The William Alanson White Institute.

"What Joye Weisel-Barth offers us in this beautifully written collection of essays is an original approach to understanding the work we do. Joye contends that over the course of their hours together, patient and analyst write and rewrite the patient's life narrative in such a way that the emerging story feels both true and acceptable, and capable of supporting a more expansive sense of future possibility. This unique vision of therapeutic process is vividly portrayed in numerous clinical vignettes where troubled lives are seen to deepen with new meaning and potential. I love this exquisitely rendered book especially for the hope it engenders for our patients and our profession." - Estelle Shane, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

"In this collection of beautifully written, often dramatic, clinical stories, Joye Weisel-Barth emerges as one of our psychoanalytic pioneers. Combining a complex grasp of contemporary theory with the courage always to be thoughtfully authentic with her patients and readers, Weisel-Barth pushes the limits of analytic acceptability in the service of giving her most challenging patients what they truly need from her. Moreover, she is as open about treatment failures as she is about her successes, always seeking to learn from her experience, and help us do the same. In short, Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Narrative in Psychoanalysis deepens and complicates our understanding of what it means to work relationally." - Steven Stern, Psy.D.Clinical Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine and Maine Medical Center.