Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing

This book offers groundbreaking insights into relational theory, exploring the patient's and the analyst's longings to know, be known and not known in psychoanalytic relationships, and the embodied nature of the healing process.Recognition of the patient's unknowable uniqueness, which is not fully accessible by means of empathy, is shown to promote more ethical therapeutic practices. Although few ...