Boundaries and Bridges

Andrea Sabbadini, CPsychol, is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and its Director of Publications. He works in private practice in London, is a Senior Lecturer at UCL, a trustee of the Freud Museum, the director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, and the chairman of a programme of films and discussions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). He is also the founder editor of' Psychoanalysis and History' and the Film Section editor of 'The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'. He has edited books on time, on paranoia and on cinema, and is the author of 'Moving Images' (Routledge), forthcoming in 2014.

• Introduction -- A sense of time -- The replacement child -- The window and the door -- Boundaries of timelessness -- Open-endedness and termination -- The year 2000 -- On the couch -- Possession anxiety -- Listening to silence -- Listening to sounds -- In between and across

'From the first page, Andrea Sabbadini offers us a unique insight into what is mysterious about psychoanalysis: "The term treatment," he writes, "does not describe the nature of what takes place in my consulting room." What is it then? With each chapter, I was brought closer to this mystery by allowing myself to share his experiences as a psychoanalyst. In the process, I found myself in the time-space where analysand and analyst develop together, not unlike acrobats when they dare to let go of the trapeze. Sabbadini has a very personal way of "speaking" to the readers, making them feel at home in his psychoanalytic world.'- Jean-Michel Quinodoz, psychoanalyst and author of Reading Freud: A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings'Elegantly written, Boundaries and Bridges moves fluently between everyday life, cultural phenomena, and the consulting room. Each page has lively examples and new ideas, all woven together into a rich and thought-provoking tapestry.'- Michael Brearley, psychoanalyst and Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London'This wonderful book is the mature outcome of Andrea Sabbadini's unique skill in creating new, surprising connections between theoretical thoughts, clinical observations, and cultural life. Boundaries and Bridges shows the specific capacity of a creative, harmonious, contemporary psychoanalyst, who is able to expand and integrate the richness of psychoanalysis both into, and between, the internal and external world.'- Stefano Bolognini, President of the International Psychoanalytical Association