Main description:

Offers a unique perspective on belonging and not belonging * Relational psychoanalysis remains a hot topic, especially in the US * Covers the importance of belonging and otherness in therapy and in everyday life

Contents:

Foreword 1. First Dialogue: Creation and the True Other i. The Birth of a True Other ii. Meeting the Ultimate Other iii. In the Beginning There Was an Other 2. I Call Out to You: An Associative Trialogue 3. Second Dialogue: Becoming, Spaciousness, and Vitality i. Going on Being: On the Fear of Ceasing and the Need to Go On ii. Making Space for the Mess: The At-one-ment of Going On iii. The Echo Chamber Is Not Empty: On Limitation and Vastness, Spaciousness and Nourishment 4. Is Truth a Testimonial Process? The Need for a Testimonial Other for the Reestablishment of Truth and for Healing of Trauma: An Associative Trialogue i. Thinking Further: Trauma and Witnessing in the Context of the Verbal and Non-verbal Messages of Society, and the Relational Nature of the World 5. Third Dialogue: The Haiku Interpretation and the Chain of Caesuras i. In the Blink of an Eye: The Minimalist Interpretation ii. And You Said Mmhmm iii. In a Few Words 6. On "No Experience" With All My Heart and Soul: An Associative Trialogue Epilogue: The Clouds of Knowing