1st Edition
Idiomatic Expressions and Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis Relational and Inter-Subjective Perspectives
Prologue Section I: From Language to Experience CHAPTER ONE: Below the Surface CHAPTER TWO: That Train Has Left the Station CHAPTER THREE: What's the Matter? CHAPTER FOUR: Digging into the Past Section II: From Experience to Language CHAPTER FIVE: It does not Smell Good CHAPTER SIX: A Dancer who does Not Dance CHAPTER SEVEN: Travel Far to Draw Near CHAPTER EIGHT: On the Record
Biography
Ravit Raufman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, group therapist and senior lecturer at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanity, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Israel. She also teaches at the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Social Welfare. She is Member of the Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center. Her research deals mostly with dreams, fairy tales, group therapy and relational psychoanalysis.
‘Raufman beautifully demonstrates how the therapist may bring to life the "dead" metaphors and commonplace idioms through which patients enact trauma and need. A persuasive contribution to the relational literature on healing methodologies.’-Richard Billow, author of Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (2003), Resistance, Rebellion, and Refusal in Groups: The 3 Rs (2010), and Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy (2016).
'In this intriguing book Ravit Raufman offers us a new avenue into the complex and idiomatic world of our patient’s symptoms. Weaving together Freudian and Jungian theory with the riches of literature, poetry and belles-lettres, she illustrates the links between the primary unconscious, sensorial realm and symbolized, verbal language. Her case studies come alive as Raufman uncovers the unique language and expression contained in her patient’s unthought behavior and symptoms. The clarity of Raufman’s writing and the sheer delight she takes in understanding her patients will make this an entertaining and delightful read for clinicians of all levels.'-Robert Grossmark, Ph.D, ABPP, Adjunct Clinical Professor and Consultant, The New York University Postdoctoral Program In Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy.
