Book Announcement by Robin Bagai (USA)
Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen’s two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm, Robin Bagai addresses universal human concerns of madness and the difficulties of our emotional life.
In conversational style, this Routledge title focuses on and amplifies important aspects of each Eigen work. Bagai follows themes from psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, religious thought and the humanities, and chapters include discussion of relevant theory from Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Buber and Levinas, among others. Rather than a comprehensive or systematic exegesis of Eigen’s work, Bagai’s commentary expands nodal aspects, illuminating and probing seminal themes and ideas. Through clinical case examples, the author explores intertwining of mind and body, self and the other using an array of carefully selected quotes from Eigen’s kaleidoscopic vision.
Robin Bagai, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist in Portland, Oregon practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for over 35 years. His work has been published in two anthologies: The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis and Healing, Rebirth, and The Work of Michael Eigen. Since 2014, he has led in-person and international seminars on over a dozen of Eigen’s books.
Robin Bagai, Psy.D.
Portland, Oregon, USA
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