1st Edition
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
Part 1: What Is Spoken Testimony? 1. What Are We Talking About When Discussing Spoken Testimony? 2. A Paradigmatic Turning Point in the Understanding of the Concept of Testimony. 3. Aspects and Images of Personal Testimony. 4. Spoken Testimony, Its epistemological Status and Its Value Standing. 5. Types of Spoken Testimony. Part 2: Testimony as a Therapeutic Function in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 6. Everyone Wants Their Voice to Be Heard. 7. The Roles of Oral Testimony in Our Lives. 8. The Function of Testimony in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. 9. The History of Psychoanalysis’s Attitude to the Testimonies of Patients. 10. Recognizing the Power of the Function of Testimony in Therapy. 11. A Review of the Writings of Psychoanalytic Researchers on the Function of Testimony in Therapy. 12. A Unique Kind of Patient`s Testimony in the Therapeutic Process 13. Summary of the Main Characteristics of the Therapist as a Witness and the Patient’s Testimony. 14. Why Testimony and Why Now? Epilogue
Biography
Zipi Rosenberg Schipper is a clinical psychologist, supervisor and occupational therapist working in private practice in Tel Aviv, Israel.
