Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-Definition

Part 1 The patient: bewitched, bothered and bewildered; out of our minds; laughter among the pear trees; restlessness of the spirit; touch and the genesis of hope. Part 2 The analyst: countertransference and misreading; the thrill of error; contradictions in the supervisory process.

Arthur Feiner has provided us with a personal account of his nearly 50 years of psychoanalytic practice. His style is relaxed and conversational as if chatting across a table. He liberally sprinkles his discourse with lively examples and metaphors from religion, physics, politics, biology, poetry and other fields. In general , this is a delightful, erudite, subtly scholarly, but intensively visceral review of the professional life of a seasoned editor, author, interpersonal analyst and mensch.