Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life

'An original and welcome contribution to help one navigate through the choice of and commitment to psychodynamic therapy. In a flowing, well-written and easy to understand style, this "Guide for the Puzzled" is a rewarding tool and guidebook for the psychotherapy consumer in thinking through whether, why, how to and in which direction to proceed in embarking on the journey towards "Self" help, understanding and discovery.'- Aryeh Maidenbaum, PhD, Director, New York Center for Jungian Studies'Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life is truly a marvelous achievement. It is a book on psychotherapy that makes it possible to understand this impossible vocation and the often indescribable efforts of the therapeutic couple to understand, appreciate and influence the life and character of at least one of them. It makes the major technical terms and theoretical underpinnings of the process accessible to prospective patients, the curious public, advanced students and professionals alike. And it accomplishes this all in a manner and language that are elegant, precise, eminently down to earth, experience-near, and above all, highly readable and fascinating.'- Shmuel Erlich, Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Training Analyst and former President, Israel Psychoanalytic Society'[This] is an original, entertaining, candid and highly readable tour of the experiential fabric as well as thetheoretical basics of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It is written from the unique perspective of a patient-analyst dyad who have joined their literary forces to reflect on the journey they have travelled together. From this vantage point, it offers an intimate view of "what the process looks and feels like, in particular from the patient's perspective." [It] is therefore, first and foremost, a tale of a psychotherapeutic encounter in which two coffee mugs, given as a gift and left unanalysed and untouched on the analyst's desk, set the plot in motion. Resistance, transference, the dynamic unconscious, therapeutic action and even the emerging neurobiological underpinnings of the talking cure are all examined and woven into the very personal narrative of what transpired and unfolded during that psychotherapy.'- Yoram Yovell, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience, Israe