Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet's imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis, whilst making a lucid journey through two thousand years of transformative poetry from Virgil, Dante and Blake to the contemporary poet Claudia Rankine. Patients enter treatment with the hope of being recognized and the hope for transformation of painful experience. David Shaddock shows how poetry can guide psychoanalysts towards meeting that hope. The book is based on the proposition that an accurate recognition of what is leads to the opening of what could be. The imaginative space that opens between poem and reader or therapist and patient can be a place of healing and transformation. Poetry and Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in using literature and creativity as inspiration for both their clinical work and personal growth, as well as all who love poetry.

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Shaddock, David

Mental Health

Routledge

Poetry and Psychoanalysis (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series)

Shaddock makes sense of intersubjectivity, the functional paradigm shift in highbrow psychotherapy, as both a way of thinking about our psychological lives and a way of doing clinical work. Applying it to relational systems means investigating the experience of each partner/ member from inside his/her perspective and without judgment.The book illustrates how that approach lowers defenses and lets in insights, mutual understanding, and renewed hope; it demonstrates that treatment built on empathic awareness of contexts and connections can actually also lead to individual transformation.

Contexts And Connections: An Intersubjective Approach To Couples Therapy

Basic Books

"They were playing the hits from '66 on / KFOG this morning. I was meeting my wife / At the oncologist. " So begins Vernal Pool, the title poem of David Shaddock's insight-ripe collection. A disciple and scholar of the great Denise Levertov, Shaddock writes with formal alacrity and informal clarity. In language you feel and trust, he sticks up for justice, social and intimate. While the American War in Vietnam defined his anxious coming-of-age, Shaddock, like Levertov-his artistic and spiritual guide-applies to everything else in his life lessons learned from that fiery era. Not only do these poems touch base with crucial human struggles and issues; they bust moves, they take risks. Throughout the tender, mindful pages of Vernal Pool, Spring breaks 24/7. -Al Young, California's former poet laureate David Shaddock's beautifully crafted revisionary sonnets startle with their swift leaps and quickening flashes of memory. To quote one of his own insightful lines, they "are a bit like Cornell boxes. / Everything inside becomes its own little world." And all the intricate interiors point outward, to our own tough or tender selves. -Sandra M. Gilbert, poet, critic, Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, University of California, Davis

Vernal Pool

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

White Violet Press

Dreams are another set of Muscles

In Between Books

From the pure light of the High Sierra to sandwich wrappers blown against a chain fence, David Shaddock has the visionary ability to see, everywhere, the numinosity of what surrounds us. This empowers him to approach also the Holy within the deep tangled griefs of our lives.Peter Dale Scott, Professor of English, emeritus, University of California, author of Poetry and Terror and Coming to JakartaDavid Shaddock discovers splendor in the mundane. By the power of his lyrical imagination, he liberates the divine sparks trapped within their material shells. Thereby he translates the ancient wisdom of Jewish spirituality into a scintillating modern idiom for contemporary readers and seekers.Daniel C. Matt, author of The Essential Kabbalah and the multivolume annotated translation, The Zohar: Pritzker EditionShaddock's poetry, of course, is words, but one hears thought and deed and stillness in it. The thought that springs from Kabbalah, the mystical thought-pattern of the Jewish people. The action that seeks to heal the broken earth. The stillness of Shabbat, where we can be tranquil in the world that is all God. Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director, The Shalom Center, author of Seasons of Our Joy and God Wrestling.

THE BOOK OF SPLENDOR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS ON SPIRITUAL THEMES

Religion & Spirituality

Kelsay Books

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