Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming

Dr. Thomas Ogden is the most widely read psychoanalyst writing today. This, his most important book, describes how one thinks and works as an analyst; how to increase the capacity to feel in a visceral way in the alive moments of a session; and how, through close attention to the nuances of language, gestures, and actions, to grasp the intersubjective construction the patient and therapist are creating.

Dr. Thomas Ogden is the most widely read psychoanalyst writing today. This, his most important book, describes how one thinks and works as an analyst; how to increase the capacity to feel in a visceral way in the alive moments of a session; and how, through close attention to the nuances of language, gestures, and actions, to grasp the intersubjective construction the patient and therapist are creating.

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Dr. Ogden, affiliated with the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and in private practice in San Francisco, contends that psychoanalytic discourse is "at the frontier of dreaming." This frontier is between the unconscious and preconscious, and metaphor is the lingua franca in which they converse. The author applies these Freudian ideas to clinical practice; poetry (e.g. that of Frost, Borges); and to a reading of D.W. Winnicot's "Primitive Emotional Development" (1945). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., has served as an Associate Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and is the Co-Founder and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses. Dr. Ogden is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a member of the Faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.