From the Publisher
This book will be of particular interest to cliniciansIn this brilliant contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice, Thomas Ogden has once again challenged psychoanalytic clinicians to expand the conceptual envelope that confines and constricts their work. Sounding the death knell for the positivist view of patient and analyst as discrete subject and object, he forges a contemporary, decentered entity - the analytic third. This joint creation is neither subject nor object but a fortuitous convergence of two subjectivities that forms the crucible of the analytic enterprise. Clinicians who read this book will find that their work is profoundly transformed. Ogden has provided us with one of the most original and compelling contributions in recent years.
Glen O. Gabbard, Distinguished Professor, The Menninger Clinic and The Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry