Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being: The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo

Author(s) : Jade McGleughlin

Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being: The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 358
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97811
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032670324
  • ISBN 10 : 1032670320

Table of Contents

Preface by Adrienne Harris
The Introduction: On Being a Bricoleur

Part One: Necessary Reach
1. The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo (2008/2011)
2. Love Letter to a Patient or the Raw Story (2001)
3. After Word(s) on Writing: We Always Tell it Slant—Clinical Stories Create Truths, Not Describe Them (2020)
4. After Word(s) on Technique: Necessary Reach (2009)
5. Two Case Vignettes: How Sarah Helped Me Help Troy and (almost) Christina (2013)

Part Two: The Breach
6. Do We Find or Lose Ourselves in the Negative (2015)
7. Answering Gestures: Further Thoughts on "Do We Find Ourselves in the Negative?" (2015)
8. "When you are in the Cellar, am I Dead?": Understanding the Limits of Empathy and the Power of Otherness Through the Film Hiroshima mon amour (2020)
9. Interlude with Life and Death: Eulogy to my Stepfather (2016)
10. White Empathy (2021)

Part Three: The Problem of Telling the Story of Another
11. The Promise of Radical Relationality in Elena Ferrante's Novels (2014)
12. Transgender Imagining and the Danger of Normative Theory (2019)
13. Thinking Outside the Oedipus Box (2021)
14. Translation: A Mother Story (2020)

Part Four: The Negative
15. The Analyst's Necessary Nonsovereignty and the Generative Power of the Negative (2020)
16. The Impossibility of Meaning (2019)

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