In Hidden Questions, Clinical Musings, M. Robert Gardner
chronicles an odyssey of self-discovery that has taken him beneath
and beyond the categoies and conventions of traditional
psychoanalysis. His essays offer a vision of psychoanalytic inquiry
that blends art and science, a vision in which the subtly
intertwining not-quite-conscious questions of analysand and
analyst, gradually discerned, open to ever-widening vistas of
shared meaning. Gardner is wonderfully illuminating in exploring
the associations, images, and dreams that have fueled his own
analytic inquiries, but he is no less compelling in writing about
the different perceptual modalities and endlessly variegated
strategies that can be summoned to bring hidden questions to
light.
This masterfully assembled collection exemplifies the lived
experience of psychoanalysis of one of its most gifted and
reflective practitioners. In his vivid depictions of analysis
oscillating between the poles of art and science, word and image,
inquiry and self-inquiry, Gardner offers precious insights into
tensions that are basic to the analytic endeavor. Evincing rare
virtuosity of form and content, these essays are evocative clinical
gems, radiating the humility, gentle skepticism, and abiding wonder
of this lifelong self-inquirer. Gardner's most uncommon musings are
a gift to the reader.
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