Body Words and the Analyst’s Use of Self

Barbara Pizer, EdD, ABPP, is faculty, personal and supervising analyst, and former board member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; assistant clinical professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Foreword by Donnel B. Stern 1. Introduction Reverie: In the Beginning 2. When the Analyst is Ill: Dimensions of Self-Disclosure Reverie: A True Story 3. When the Crunch is a (K)not: A Crimp in Relational Dialogue 4. Passion, Responsibility, and "Wild Geese": Creating a Context for the Absence of Conscious Intentions 5. Narrative Writing and Soulful Metaphors: Commentary on Paper by Barbara Pizer by Donnel B. Stern 6. "Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl": Affect and Intuition in the Analytic Relationship 7. From Black Hole to Potential Space: Discussion of Barbara Pizer's '"Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl": Affect and Intitution in the Analytic Relationship" by Stuart A. Pizer Reverie: A Motherless Child 8. Risk and Potential in Analytic Disclosure: Can the Analyst Make "The Wrong Thing" Right? Reverie: I Wish That Life 9. The Heart of the Matter in Matters of the Heart: Power and Intimacy in Analytic and Couples Relationships Reverie: I'll Never Forget 10. A Clinical Exploration of Moving Anger Forward: Intimacy, Anger, and Creative Freedom Reverie: Sometimes People Have to 11. Maintaining Analytic Liveliness: "The Fire and the Fuel" of Growth and Change Reverie: To Tell the Truth 12. Trauma, Dissociation, and Disorganized Attachment: A Clinical Collage Engaging Giovanni Liotti's Work Reverie: English Is My Mother's Second Language 13. "Why Can't We Be Lovers?" When the Price of Love Is Loss of Love: Boundary Violations in Clinical Context Reverie: Who Would Think 14. Not-Me: The Vicissitudes of Aging Reverie: Whatever the Rewards of Childhood 15. Body Words: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process 16. Coda—Bodies and Embodiment, 1963: The Person of the Analyst Final Reverie: There Must Not