Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen: Working with the Obstructive Object...

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Keri S. Cohen Loray Daws (Psychologist in private practice, Canada)

Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen

Working with the Obstructive Object

Keri S. Cohen, Loray Daws (Psychologist in private practice, Canada)

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Routledge
28 June 2024

Counselling & advice services; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

"Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on the Obstructive Object.

The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works, including The Psychotic Core, Psychic Deadness, Toxic Nourishment, and Damaged Bonds. This volume seeks to elaborate on the Obstructive Object through essays and poems that include poignant clinical examples, the impact of exceptionally traumatized patients on their analysts, literature comparisons, and the more ""mystical aspect"" of Eigen’s influence on working with the obstructive object. Essays draw from Virginia Woolf, Elena Ferrante, Wilfred Bion, D.W. Winnicott, Andrè Greene, Christopher Bollas, and Adam Phillips, among many others, in exploring injury-rage, unwanted patients, psychoanalytic faith, toxic nourishment, and damaged bonds.

Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen will greatly interest psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and those interested in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology."

Edited by: Keri S. Cohen, Loray Daws (Psychologist in private practice, Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 344g
ISBN: 9781032346007
ISBN 10: 1032346000
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 28 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments About the Editors and the Contributors Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen: Working with the Obstructive Object and Primary Process Impacts Foreword Morning Blues 1. The Obstructive Object Jeffrey L. Eaton 2. A Fish in the Stream: Life in Creativity with Virginia Woolf Meg Harris Williams 3. Occlusions, Metabolic Excess, and Other Risks to Subject Formation in the Child. Michael O’Laughlin and Mila C. Kristie 4. Abraham’s and Isaac’s Fear and Silence Louis Rothschild 5. Grappling with the Obstructive Object in the Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante: A Reflection Based on the Works of Michael Eigen Marlene Goldsmith 6. Undreamable Dreams Françoise Davoine 7. Impenetrable Obstructive Object: A Poem Robin Bagai 8. Dreaming a Long Day With Michael Eigen Stefanie Teitelbaum 9. Unwanted Nearings and Therapeutic Clearings: Holding on, in a Difficult Encounter, to Michael Eigen’s Clinical Wisdom David Smith 10. Raging against Love – Surviving Injury-Rage Patients: A Personal Reverie Richard Raubolt 11. Transcendent Intuition: Linking Fragments to Psychic Attunement across Time and Space Keri Cohen 12. Welcoming Faith, Forgiveness, and Destruction: Being-with Sara Brent Potter 13. A Cup of Love Gagandeep Kaur Ahluwalia God by Rachel Berghash

Keri S. Cohen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Board-Certified Diplomate in clinical social work. She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Pennsylvania, USA. Loray Daws is a registered Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and British Columbia, Canada. He is currently in private practice and is a senior faculty member at the International Masterson Institute in New York, USA.

Reviews for Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen: Working with the Obstructive Object

"""This work is the product of 13 experienced clinicians who are creative thinkers and thought-provoking writers. These thoughtful essays, enriched with clinical material, urge us to deepen our insight into Eigen's welcome-obstructive qualities of human relations. It is landmark work for all clinicians from beginning to highly advanced. Read this book to understand how to work with Eigen's dualities and intricate ideas.” - Professor Aner Govrin, The Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel “Keri Cohen and Loray Daws have done an outstanding job editing the book Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen. With a palpable affect and gratitude for Michael, thirteen authors offered their ideas to an experience in depth-reading of his work. The authors express their views in a Language of achievement, which, as Bion (1970) defined it, manages to hold onto uncertainties and mysteries without an irritating search for reasons and truths. Through their contributions, readers will be magically transported and enveloped in Eigen's vital work.” - Jani Santamaria, child and adult psychoanalyst, Mexican Psychoanalytic Association"