Main description:

Psychoanalysis is often referred to a talking cure, but in this fascinating book it is the art of writing that is discussed and explored.

Including contributions from a selection of leading therapists, the book shines a psychoanalytic light on the very process through which the discipline is described. It includes chapters on the idea of creativity, the issues around a therapist's subjectivity, the challenges of describing trauma, as well as those of co-authorship.

Psychodynamics of Writing will appeal to clinicians, therapists and anyone interested in what the process of writing means.

Contents:

On writing - notes from an attachment-informed psychotherapist. Jeremy Holmes

Finding a Creative Writing Space. Joyce Slochower

A Letter Always Reaches its Destination. Stephen Frosh

Becoming an author. Martin Weegmann

Mad Desire and Feverish Melancholy: reflections on the
psychodynamics of academic writing. Nick Barwick

Clinical writing and the analyst's subjectivity. Lawrence Spurling

The transformative other: Some thoughts on the psychodynamics of co authorship. Ian S. Miller & Alistair Sweet

The writer in the archive: trauma, empathy, ambivalence. Phil Leask

An I for an I. Cheryl Moskowitz

Configuring words. Joan Raphael-Leff

Writing as rebellion. Morris Nitsun

Raiding the inarticulate- the clinical case study & the representation of trauma. Maggie Turp