1st Edition
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille From Social Theory to Clinical Practice
Part I: Psychotherapy with Individuals 1. Searching for a Sign: Listening, Looking, Touching, Way-finding 2. The Distance Between Spending and Spent: On Manic Consuming, Hoarding, Expending, and Other Visions of Excess 3. The Other Kind of Laughter 4. Recovery 5. Excremental Journey 6. The Accursed Child Part II: Psychotherapy with Couples 7. Sexual Disgust Redux Part III: Psychotherapy with Groups 8. The Acephalic Stage Part IV: Psychotherapy with Communities 9. Triple Fugue: A Dialogical Exploration of Sovereign Experience Part V: The End(s) of Psychotherapy 10. Do No Harm/Please Harm Me
Biography
William Buse, PhD, completed his anthropological training (Columbia University) and his psychoanalytic training (Postgraduate Center for Mental Health) in New York City. He currently serves as Director of Counseling at The Juilliard School and maintains a psychotherapy practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
"A bombshell and intellectual delight, immensely readable and searingly original, this momentously important book reconfigures not only Bataille but psychotherapy itself in these beleaguered times. A tour de force."
—Michael T. Taussig, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, Columbia University, US, author of Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown (2020)
