Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility (New Library of Psychoanalysis)

"Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls "epistemological psychoanalysis" (having to do with knowing and understanding) to "ontological psychoanalysis" (having to do with being and becoming). Ogden clinically illustrates his way of dreaming the analytic session and of inventing psychoanalysis with each patient. Using the works of Winnicott and Bion, he finds a turn in the analytic conception of mind in which mind from conceiving of mind as a thing-a "mental apparatus"-to viewing mind as a living process located in the very act of experiencing. Ogden closes the volume with discussions of being and becoming that occur in reading the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, and in the practice of analytic writing. This book will be of great interest not only to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in the shift in analytic theory and practice Ogden describes, but also to those interested in ideas concerning the way the mind and human experiencing are created"-- Provided by publisher Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls "epistemological psychoanalysis" to "ontological psychoanalysis." Cover 1 Endorsement Page 2 Half Title 4 Series Page 5 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Also by Thomas H. Ogden (Non-Fiction and Fiction) 8 Dedication 10 Table of Contents 12 Acknowledgments 13 Preface 15 Introduction: Notes on being and becoming 18 Chapter 1 Ontological psychoanalysis or “What do you want to be when you grow up?” 26 Chapter 2 The feeling of real: On Winnicott’s “Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain opposites” 50 Chapter 3 How I talk with my patients 74 Chapter 4 Destruction reconceived: On Winnicott’s “The use of an object and relating through identifications” 89 Chapter 5 Dreaming the analytic session: A clinical essay 115 Chapter 6 Toward a revised form of analytic thinking and practice: The evolution of analytic theory of mind 134 Chapter 7 On language and truth in psychoanalysis 158 Chapter 8 Experiencing the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson 173 Chapter 9 Analytic writing as a form of fiction 180 Index 184 Ontological;,psychoanalysis;,feeling;,real;,Winnicott’s;,communicating;,talk;,patients;,destruction;,reconceived;,dreaming;,analytic;,session;,clinical;,thinking;,practice;,mind;,language;,truth;,poetry;,Robert,Frost;,Emily,Dickinson;,fiction Ontological,psychoanalysis,feeling,real,Winnicott’s,communicating,talk,patients,destruction,reconceived,dreaming,analytic,session,clinical,thinking,practice,mind,language,truth,poetry,Robert Frost,Emily Dickinson,fiction Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls'epistemological psychoanalysis'(having to do with knowing and understanding) to'ontological psychoanalysis'(having to do with being and becoming). Ogden clinically illustrates his way of dreaming the analytic session and of inventing psychoanalysis with each patient. Using the works of Winnicott and Bion, he finds a turn in the analytic conception of mind from conceiving of it as a thing—a'mental apparatus'—to viewing mind as a living process located in the very act of experiencing. Ogden closes the volume with discussions of being and becoming that occur in reading the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, and in the practice of analytic writing. This book will be of great interest not only to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in the shift in analytic theory and practice Ogden describes, but also to those interested in ideas concerning the way the mind and human experiencing are created.