Dramatic Dialogue

Galit Atlas, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and at the Four-Year Adult and National Training Programs at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2015). Her New York Times article "A Tale of Two Twins" was the winner of 2016 Gradiva award.Lewis Aron, Ph.D., is the director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and books on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, including A Meeting of Minds, and co-editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series. He is well known for his study and reading groups around the world.

• Chapter 1: Generative Enactments Chapter 2: The Prospective Function Chapter 3: Dramatic Dialogues Chapter 4: Therapeutic Action and Therapeutic Traction Chapter 5: The Truth of the Session Chapter 6: Theatrical Engagement Chapter 7: At-one-ment, Mutual Vulnerability, and Co-Suffering Chapter 8: The Prequel

'In this brilliant book, Atlas and Aron have done nothing less than shift the ground under our feet. In one fell swoop, the commodious metaphor of "dramatic dialogue," adopted from Ferenczi and then turned to wider use, makes it possible for the authors to see and describe commonalities among clinical and intellectual contributions that have often been considered incommensurable. In illuminating a whole new approach to the problem of psychoanalytic pluralism, and in a lucid, clinically rich text that covers an enormous range of ideas, Atlas and Aron are opening ​a door to the psychoanalysis of the future.'-Donnel Stern, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, Clinical Consultant and Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.'Immensely compelling and clinically useful, Dramatic Dialogue beautifully demonstrates the necessary integration of the enacted relationship and its symbolic contents. Brilliantly argued, this book is both an exciting revision of psychoanalysis and a renewal of its foundations as a practice of desire: one in which revelations of the past are nothing less than harbingers of transformation, in which we find the interactive dimension of shared feeling to be a continual wellspring of healing.'-Jessica Benjamin, author of Beyond Doer and Done To.