Dramatic Dialogue Contemporary Clinical Practice

'In this brilliant book, Atlas and Aron have done nothing less than shift the ground under our feet. In one fell swoop, the commodious metaphor of "dramatic dialogue," adopted from Ferenczi and then turned to wider use, makes it possible for the authors to see and describe commonalities among clinical and intellectual contributions that have often been considered incommensurable. In illuminating a whole new approach to the problem of psychoanalytic pluralism, and in a lucid, clinically rich text that covers an enormous range of ideas, Atlas and Aron are opening a door to the psychoanalysis of the future.'-Donnel Stern, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, Clinical Consultant and Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

'Immensely compelling and clinically useful, Dramatic Dialogue beautifully demonstrates the necessary integration of the enacted relationship and its symbolic contents. Brilliantly argued, this book is both an exciting revision of psychoanalysis and a renewal of its foundations as a practice of desire: one in which revelations of the past are nothing less than harbingers of transformation, in which we find the interactive dimension of shared feeling to be a continual wellspring of healing.'-Jessica Benjamin, author of Beyond Doer and Done To.