The possible profession: the analytic process and the process of change

The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change takes a fresh look at the many forms of unconscious communication that take place in the analytic situation. Bringing together two decades of the author's previous writing as well as a considerable amount of new material, this book addresses a major contemporary issue in the field of psychoanalysis. Unconscious communication in the analytic situation takes many forms. This book explores a number of these pathways as the author has encountered them in clinical work. Including numerous clinical examples, chapters cover a va.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Finding a Point of View: An Introduction; Section I:Interaction and the Inner World; 1. On Beginnings: The Concept of the Therapeutic Allianceand the Interplay of Transferences in the Opening Phase; 2. The Inner Experiences of the Analyst: Their Contributionto the Analytic Process; 3. On Misreading and Misleading Patients: Some Reflectionson Communications, Miscommunications and Countertransference Enactments; 4. Imaginary Gardens, Real Toads: On Memory and its Uses in the Analytic Process.

5. On Unconscious Communications and Covert Enactments: Some Reflections on Their Role in the Analytic Situation6. Patients as Instruments of Change in the Analyst:Their Role in the Analytic Process; 7. On Courage: A Fragment of an Analysis; Section II:Questions, Controversies, Explorations; 8. On the Status of Nonverbal Communications: Some Reflectionson Their Role in the Analytic Process and Analytic Education; 9. Reflections on the Goals of Analysis and the Process of Change; 10. On the Question of Self-Disclosure: Error or Advancein Treatment.

11. Listening, Dreaming, Sharing: On the Uses of the Analyst's I…