When the Garden Isn’t Eden

Kerry L. Malawista is a training/supervising analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is cochair of the New Directions Writing Program and founder of the Things They Carry Project.Linda G. Kanefield teaches and supervises at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her psychology practice is in psychoanalysis and fertility consultation.Anne J. Adelman is a teaching and training analyst with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, a teaching analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society, and a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the editor of JAPA Review of Books and cochair of the New Directions Writing Program.Malawista and Adelman are coauthors of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life (2011) and coeditors of The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013), both from Columbia University Press.

In this sequel to Wearing My Tutu to Analysis, Malawista, Kanefield, and Adelman masterfully weave together poetry, prose, and storytelling in a way that is both disarming and compelling. When the Garden Isn’t Eden invites psychoanalytically informed engagement with the timely and troubling issues that permeate society.

• IntroductionPart I: Clinical Thoughts1. When the Garden Isn’t Eden (Analysts Reflect on Somatic Memory)2. A Visitation (Analysts Reflect on the Uncanny)3. One Ping at a Time (Analysts Reflect on Mentalization)4. What Are You Thinking? (Analysts Reflect on Projective Identification)5. Three More Days (Analysts Reflect on Identification)Part II: Development6. What Lurks Under the Bed (Analysts Reflect on Separation Anxiety)7. Butterfly Bandage (Analysts Reflect on Death of a Parent in Childhood)8. Saving Swifty (Analysts Reflect on Sibling Rivalry)9. Betrayal (Analysts Reflect on Adolescence Derailment)10. Solid State (Analysts Reflect on Aging)Part III: Therapeutic Listening 11. Lost Cat (Analysts Reflect on Need for Attunement)12. Intoxicating Power (Analysts Reflect on Expansion of Empathy)13. Stepping Over the Threshold (Analysts Reflect on Timing and Tact)14. Ugly Shoes (Analysts Reflect on Reverie)15. The Limo Ride (Analysts Reflect on Self-Disclosure)Part IV: Transitions and Challenges16. I Can’t Believe It’s True (Analysts Reflect on Frozen Grief)17. Mucking the Stall (Analysts Reflect on Sexual Abuse)18. Take Her Blood (Analysts Reflect on Recognizing Resilience)19. On Thin Ice (Analysts Reflect on White Privilege and Othering)20. Virtual Mourning (Analysts Reflect on Remote Connections)Conclusion: The BridgeAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex