Book Announcement by Mitchel Becker (Israel)
Demonstrating a relational, dialogic way of thinking and writing, Relational Conversations on Meeting and Becoming: The Birth of a True Other offers innovative perspectives on the human potential for intersubjective engagement and the nature of true encounter.
Michal Barnea-Astrog and Mitchel Becker’s co-edited volume features psychoanalysts engaged in creative, associative dialogues and trialogues inspired by psychoanalysis and Buddhism, poetry and religion, theory and case studies, academic and free writing styles – each enriching the other. The chapters reflect on the essence of relating, conveying a flow between inner, private reveries and shared ones, and between individual expressions of thought and evolvements of newly born thirds. Through this interdisciplinary, experimental setting, the authors explore the possibility of reaching truths and meanings that each individual would not have achieved on their own. In so doing, this Routledge book offers new concepts and formulations that may nourish therapists’ thinking and be usefully implemented in their practices.
Michal Barnea-Astrog, Ph.D. is a writer, Senior Hakomi Trainer, and therapist in private practice. She teaches seminars on the dialogue between psychoanalysis and Buddhism and is the founder and head of the Three-Year Hakomi Training in Israel. She is the author of Carved by Experience: Vipassana, Psychoanalysis, and the Mind Investigating Itself (Karnac, 2017), Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Reflections on Gentleness: Sensitivity, Fear, and the Drive Towards Truth (Routledge, 2019), and the novels (published in Hebrew) Migration (Pardess, 2021) and The Coming Years (Shta’yim, 2022).
Mitchel Becker, Psy.D., clinical psychologist in private practice, is lecturer at the Psychotherapy Program of Bar Ilan University and supervisor at the Psychotherapy Program of Tel Aviv University. He has published articles on Relational psychoanalysis with an emphasis on sustaining the dialectic tension between the monadic and the intersubjective as they play out in issues concerning play, projective identification, narcissism and the capacity to know and to disappear. Dr. Becker is a long-time member of IARPP and currently moderator of the IARPP Collective.
Mitchel Becker, Ph.D.
Raanana, Israel
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Michal Barnea-Astrog, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv, Israel
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