By Galit Atlas (USA) and Lewis Aron (USA)

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In Dramatic Dialogue (Routledge, 2018) Galit Atlas and Lewis Aron develop the metaphors of drama and theatre to introduce a new way of thinking about therapeutic action and therapeutic traction. This model invites the patient’s many self-states and the numerous versions of the therapist’s self onto the analytic stage to dream a mutual dream and live together the past and the future, as they appear in the present moment. The book brings together the relational emphasis on multiple self-states and enactment with the Bionian conceptions of reverie and dreaming-up the patient.

The term Dramatic Dialogue originated in Ferenczi’s clinical innovations and refers to the patient and therapist dramatizing and dreaming-up the full range of their multiple selves. Along with Atlas and Aron, readers will become immersed in a Dramatic Dialogue, which the authors elaborate and enact, using the contemporary language of multiple self-states, waking dreaming, dissociation, generative enactment, and the prospective function.

The book provides a rich description of contemporary clinical practice, illustrated with numerous clinical tales and detailed examination of clinical moments. Inspired by Bion’s concept of “becoming-at-one” and “at-one-ment” the authors call for a return of the soul or spirit to psychoanalysis and the generative use of the analyst’s subjectivity, including a passionate use of mind, body and soul in the pursuit of psychoanalytic truth. Dramatic Dialogue will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Link to Publisher:  https://www.routledge.com/Dramatic-Dialogue-Contemporary-Clinical-Practice/Atlas-Aron/p/book/9781138555488

Galit Atlas, PhD
USA
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Lewis Aron, PhD
Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
240 Greene Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10003
USA
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