Gabriela Mann's book explores the work of an Israeli psychoanalyst who encounters the trauma and tragedy of Israelis living in an environment saturated with existential anxieties and threats to their well-being.
Gabriela Mann's book explores the work of an Israeli psychoanalyst who encounters the trauma and tragedy of Israelis living in an environment saturated with existential anxieties and threats to their well-being.
This work offers clinical materials that illustrate the possibility of expansion of the mind through a spiritual dimension in psychoanalysis. The main theme focuses on transcending from a narrow perspective to a broad compassionate view by uncovering the interconnectedness between seemingly different phenomena. This cultivates the patients' ability to free themselves from past and contemporary trauma. Drawing on Kohut, Bion, and Winnicott, as well as from Buddhist thinking, Seeing Through Blindness describes the transformation of archaic narcissism, usually concerned with individual goals, to mature narcissism which strives for a supra-individual perspective. The reader is invited to choose among the chapters that describe splits in the self, paradoxes of belonging, perpetrators and victims, perversion, and selfobject needs at times of threat and bereavement.
The book offers new ways of thinking about trauma in a troubled world, for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
Tragedy and Transformation: The contribution of Israeliness to
Psychoanalysis, Raanan Kulka
1. Captive in a Disaster: October 2023
2. Seeing
Beyond Blindness: On the Link Between Kohuts and Bions Transcendental
Psychology
3. Paradoxes of Belonging
4. Perpetrators and Victims: Can the
Self Renounce Its Trauma?
5. If You Dont See Me, I Will Show You: The
Paradox of Love in Therapy
6. Selfobject Needs as a Mirror of States of the
Mind at Times of Environmental Threat and Discontent
7. Accepting Transience:
Relinquishment of the Ego or an Expansion of the Self?
8. Virtual Reality as
a Selfobject Function: Toward Reclaiming Unlived Potentialities
9.
Transformation of Mind in Five Dreams
10. Emptiness, Equanimity, and the
Selfobject Function
Gabriela Mann Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and supervising analyst, co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and past president. Mann is on the faculty of Human Spirit, a psychoanalytic-Buddhist training program and director of the Post Graduate Program in Self Psychology at the Tel Aviv Sackler Medical school.
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