Living Moments

James S. Grotstein, M.D. was Professor of Psychiatry, U.C.L.A School of Medicine, and a training and supervising analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and at The Psychoanalytic Centre of California. He was a member of the editorial board of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and was past North American Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He published over 250 papers and was the author or editor/co-editor of numerous books. Stephen Bloch is clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a founding member of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts and has served on its Executive Committee, Assessment and Review, Ethics and Library Committees. He has given training seminars on transference and countertransference, dream interpretation, Klein, Winnicott, Bion and Eigen, the psychoanalytic frame, music and psychoanalysis, embodiment, psychotherapy with the meditating patient. He has published papers and reviews and co- edited with Paul Ashton 'Music and Psyche' (Spring Publications, 2010). Loray Daws is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist currently in private practice in British Columbia, Canada. He is founding member of the South African and British Columbia Masterson Institutes as well as a faculty member of the International Masterson Institute in New York where he completed a post-graduate training program in the disorders of the self. He has published articles on dreaming, psychosomatic disorders (burning mouth syndrome and eating disorders) and the disorders of the self in journals such as the 'International Journal of Psychotherapy', 'Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology', 'South African Rorschach Journal', and 'Clinical Counselling and Contemporary Psychotherapy'. He has supervised and taught in South Africa, Canada, the United States, Australia and Turkey and currently serves as assistant editor for the 'Global Journal of Health Sciences'.

• Introductory Note , Foreword , Editors’ introduction , Reflections , Bion, Eigen, and the dreaming of Kali , Distinction–union: a Buddhist reflection on the great embrace , The work of Michael Eigen: into the heart of psychoanalysis , Eigentime: time in the writing of Michael Eigen , Tropisms of creative faith and destructiveness in the works of Michael Eigen and Martin Heidegger , Refractions , Psychic aliveness: on “being murdered into life” , Eigen’s transformational esthetic: wounded nourishment, primary process work, and the purple period , Becoming a welcoming object: personal notes on Michael Eigen’s impact , Being with-in, “wherever you find yourself with a patient” , Michael Eigen: rich impacts , Supervision with Michael Eigen: notes on a love affair , Thoughts from Michael Eigen in my work with young Aboriginal mothers , Studying Bion’s work in Mike Eigen’s ongoing weekly seminar , Reveries , Michael Eigen’s Ecstasy as/and poetry , Two poems , Tangled up in Mike , On fragmentation, expansion, pieces of more , Sensing the mustard seed: defense, awakening, and fragmentation , Michael Eigen: bibliography of main works

'Michael Eigen is one of the greatest psychoanalysts of our time. He personifies that rare hybrid of thinker who is erudite, clinically astute, and moves you as a human being in search of a soul. His ideas have shaped generations of those attempting to integrate clinical theory with a philosophy of living both in and outside of the consulting room. In this important collection, his most celebrated contributions and personal influences are brought to light in a most authentic, humbling, and inspiring dedication to his life's work and legacy.'--Jon Mills, Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, and author of Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics'This book is a loving and deeply informed tribute to a renowned and extraordinary teacher. But it is more than that. It is also a pathway into Eigen's thought and a way to experience the transformative effect of his presence as a mentor, a guide, and a probing force. We experience - through the students' love - Eigen's love for Bion. The book will do more than introduce you to ideas, though these are important. You will learn a lot about the creative power of disruption and turbulence and the demand on the analyst to go very deeply into the awesome terrain that lies within oneself and the patient. Reading this book, a clinician or a patient will consider the necessity for faith, trust and unpredictability. By participating in this book you enter and can become part of a wondrous lineage: from Bion, through Eigen, to his students. This is the way psychoanalysis should work - the lived transmission of faith.'--Adrienne Harris, PhD., New York University, co-editor of The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor'This book explores a number of fascinating approaches and subjects, in a very engaging and compelling way, and I am sure will generate a great deal of interest and discussion.'- Rod Tweedy, editor of Karnac Books and author of The God of the Left Hemisphere