Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing

Jean Petrucelli, PhD, is Director and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions Service at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City, where she is also a member of the Teaching Faculty and Supervisor of Psychotherapy. Additionally, she is Co-Editor of 'Hungers and Compulsion: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions'. Dr Petrucelli is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan and lectures on the themes of eating disorders and addiction.

'Don't miss this marvelous collection of articles, the record of one of the most scintillating psychoanalytic conferences I can ever remember attending. It's a real knockout-brilliantly conceived and masterfully realized. Virtually everyone you might expect to be included in a project called Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Sort-of Knowing is included, and then some, and the result is a volume of breadth and depth that will be read for decades.' - Donnel B. Stern, PhD, The William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute, New York'What I know is that Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Sort-of Knowing is a book you should read. Jean Petrucelli has collected a large group of jewels and produced a psychoanalytic crown. This cutting-edge collection covers those topics you will most want to know about in today's psychoanalytic world, from dissociation, multiple self-states, neuro-psychoanalysis, affect theory, implicit knowing, and more. It is fitting that such a book ends with essays on joy, as it is a joy to have this collection available.' - Lewis Aron, PhD, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis.'This is a brave book and an important one. It is timely too. The interest in the ordinariness of dissociative states of mind and its place in all of our psyches, not just the traumatic, is allowing our field to question the historical grip that psychoanalysis has had on the need to know, the need to be right, the need to offer the correct interpretation. In short, the need to find certainty. Psychoanalysis is now such a developing praxis that we can come to humility without fear. We can afford to address questions of 'knowing' and 'not-knowing', and even 'maybe knowing', without the edifice crumbling. Indeed, as this important collection of papers shows, it is in the questioning that our understandings and approaches to the mind develop and strengthen. As we open ourselves up to uncertainties, we have the means to offer the mixture of uncertainty and rigour; of knowing and not-knowing; of thinking and rethinking, to the people we see, thus enlivening them, ourselves, and our theories.' - Susie Orbach, psychoanalyst and author of Bodies; Co-Founder of The Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York and The Women's Therapy Centre in London.Contributors include: Edgar A. Levenson, Philip M. Bromberg, Arnold H. Modell, Abby Stein, Sheldon Itzkowitz, Elizabeth Howell, Elizabeth Hegeman, Peter Lessem, Jean Petrucelli, Mark J. Blechner, Adam Phillips, Allan Schore, Wilma S. Bucci, James L. Fosshage, Richard Chefetz, Sandra Herschberg, Jessica Zucker, Katie Gentile, Janet Tintner, Jill Bressler, Barry Cohen, Caryn Gorden, Susan Klebanoff, Joseph Canarelli, Rachel Newcombe, Karen Weisbard and Sandra Buechler.

• Introduction , Stalking the Elusive Mutative Experience , The enigma of the transference , The Keynote Addresses , The nearness of you 1 : Navigating selfhood, otherness, and uncertainty 2 , The unconscious as a knowledge processing centre , Dissociation—Clinical, Diagnostic, and Conceptual Perspectives ... from Murder through Abuse to Masochism , Shooting in the spaces: Violent crime as dissociated enactment 1 , Dissociative identity disorder: The abused child and the spurned diagnosis , Dissociation and dissociative disorders: Commentary and context , Multiple personality disorder and spirit possession: Alike, yet not alike , Masochistic relating, dissociation, and the wish to rescue the loved one: A view from multiple self-state theory , When Experience Has a Mind of Its Own , Things that go bump in the night: Secrets after dark , Psychoanalytic treatment of panic attacks 1 , On getting away with it: On the experiences we don't have , How Do We Know and How Does It Change? The Role of Implicit and Explicit Mind/Brain/Body Processes , The right brain implicit self: A central mechanism of the psychotherapy change process , The uncertainty principle in the psychoanalytic process , Implicit and explicit pathways to psychoanalytic change , Life as performance art: Right and left brain function, implicit knowing, and felt coherence , Bridging neurobiology, cognitive science and psychoanalysis: Recent contributions to theories of therapeutic action , How Bodies Are Theorized, Exhibited and Struggled with and against: Gender, Embodiment, and the Analyst's Physical Self , Lights, camera, attachment: Female embodiment as seen through the lens of pornography , Purging as embodiment 1 , The incredible shrinking shrink , I Know Something about You: Working with Extra-Analytic Knowledge in the Analytic Dyad in the Twenty-First Century , I know something about you , Double exposure ... Sightings of the analyst outside the consultation room , Who's afraid of Google? , Six degrees of separation ... When real worlds collide in treatment , Omissions of Joy , Instances of joy in psychoanalysis: Some reflections , The underbelly of joy , The intersubjectivity of joy , The healing power of joy