Publications Announcement by Michael Eigen (USA)

Where is Peace?

(2022). Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 19(1): 74-75.

An extended therapy vignette touches dialectics between self-attack and moments of peace. The patient draws on implicit trauma worlds in tension with a deep sense of strength and beauty, as well as helplessness. Change occurs in partly unknown ways, growing out of therapy talk, sensing, and felt interaction. Therapeutic exercises add to the background mix, making use of fusions-oppositions of self-attack and moments of peace, both adding to growth.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1551806X.2021.2000799?journalCode=uppe20

A Few Session Moments

(2022). The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82: 22-31.

This communication presents three session vignettes with three different people. The three dialogues are: 1) Wondering; 2) Evacuative Moments and a Wish for Something Better; and 3) Not the Lord. An emphasis is the evocative richness of moments in therapy that involve speech yet run silently through different psychic dimensions opening possibilities of growth. So much life happens in ways hard to pin down, yet trying to speak from one’s being and voice one’s concerns gives rise to something one might call psychic resonance.

link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s11231-022-09335-0

Summer Walks: Therapy in Marshes, Lakes, and a Giving Pond

(2021). Division/Review, 25: 29.

A session vignette.

issuu.com/divisionreview/docs/dr2022_25pages_2

Michael Eigen, Ph.D.
New York, NY
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