Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind

This is a unique and creative book. Gilhooley and his patient, Toich, collaborate in detailing their complex, intense and fascinating therapeutic journey. Their account of their interactions, their rigorous examination and recontextualizing of psychoanalytic history, their brilliant integration of interdisciplinary fields, and their meticulous documentation of psi phenomena should lead to a reassessment and expansion of every clinician's theory and technique. This highly valuable work will stir controversies energizing, enriching and developing the psychotherapeutic field. - Robert J. Marshall, PhD, ABPP in Clinical Psychology, author of Resistant Interactions: Child, Family and Psychotherapist and The Transference-Countertransference Matrix A vivid picture of the unconscious resonance that occurs in psychoanalysis. Gilhooley and Toich, having both endured the traumatic death of a loved one, create a magnetism of loss in an analysis facilitating intersubjective rapport, where pasts never spoken of can be intuited and futures, as yet unlived, can be predicted. The physical theory of quantum entanglement grounds this concept of a nonlocal and transpersonal unconscious less in magic than in science. A must read for anyone who has ever experienced an unsettling confrontation with the uncanny. - Lucy Holmes, PhD, author of The Internal Triangle and Wrestling with Destiny Dealing with concepts essential to the nature of psychoanalysis--death, time, timelessness and the nature of reality--this book is an original and captivating combination of theory and clinical practice. Weaving fictional characters through historical accounts of psychoanalysis and quantum physics, Gilhooley and Toich create an ambiance of nonlocality. As a demonstration of clinical intersubjectivity, the authors reveal that within our unconscious mind we dwell outside time and locality, accessing timeless and space-less dimensions. - Angeliki Yiassemides, PhD, author of Time and Timelessness: Temporality in the Theory of Carl Jung, editor of Time and the Psyche: Jungian Perspectives