Stern, Donnel B.,

Unformulated experience : from dissociation to imagination in psychoanalysis / Donnel B. Stern. - xv, 293 pages ; 24 cm. - Relational perspectives book series ; v. 8 . - Relational perspectives book series ; v. 8. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Experience Formulated and Unformulated -- The Given and the Made: A Constructivist View -- Unformulated Experience: An Introduction -- Familiar Chaos: Unformulated Experience as Defense -- Creative Disorder and Unbidden Perceptions: Unformulated Experience as Possibility -- Reconsidering Self-Deception: Toward a Theory of Dissociation -- Imagination and Creative Speech: Thoughts on Dissociation and Formulation -- Not-Spelling-Out: Dissociation in the Strong Sense -- Narrative Rigidity: Dissociation in the Weak Sense -- The Problem of the Private Self: Unformulated Experience, the Interpersonal Field, and Multiplicity -- Unformulated Experience in the Work of the Analyst -- Interpretation and Subjectivity: A Phenomenology of Resistance -- The Analyst's Unformulated Experience of the Patient -- Gadamer's Hermeneutics: A Philosophy for the Embedded Analyst -- Courting Surprise: Unbidden Perception in Clinical Practice -- Notes -- References -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. III. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Psychoanalysis.
Dissociation (Psychology)
Imagination.

BF175 / .S665 1997

150.195