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The Analyst's Reveries - Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept (Paperback)
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While the use of the analyst's own reveries in work with patients
has increased in recent times, there has been little critical
inquiry into its value, and the problems it may lead to. The
Analyst's Reveries finds increasing veneration for the analyst's
use of their reveries, while revealing important differences
amongst post-Bionians in how reverie is defined and used
clinically. Fred Busch ponders if it has been fully recognized that
some post-Bionions suggest a new, radical paradigm for what is
curative in psychoanalysis. After searching for the roots of the
analyst's use of reverie in Bion's work and questioning whether in
this regard Bion was a Bionian, Busch carefully examines the work
of some post-Bionians and finds both convincing ways to think about
the usefulness and limitations of the analyst's use of reverie. He
explores questions including: From what part of the mind does a
reverie emerge? How does its provenance inform its transformative
possibilities? Do we over-generalize in conceptualizing what is
unrepresented, with the corresponding problem of false positives?
Do dreams equal understanding and what about the generalizability
of the co-created reverie? Busch concludes that it is primarily
through the analyst's own associations that the reverie's potential
is revealed, which further helps the analyst distinguish it from
many other possibilities, including the analyst's
countertransference. He believes in the importance of converting
reveries into verbal interpretations, a controversial point amongst
post-Bionians. Busch ends with the difficult task of classifying
the analyst's reveries based on their degree of representation. The
Analyst's Reveries will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
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