Mirroring and Attunement by Kenneth Wright

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This book offers a new approach to psychoanalysis, artistic creation and religion, proposing that each provides a medium for creative dialogue and can be seen as a cultural attempt to provide the self with resonant containment.

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Mirroring and Attunement by Kenneth Wright

This book offers a new approach to psychoanalysis, artistic creation and religion, proposing that each provides a medium for creative dialogue and can be seen as a cultural attempt to provide the self with resonant containment.

"This lucidly written account of seminal concepts from Bion, Stern and Winnicott, brings them vividly to life through integrating them into an interdisciplinary work that incorporates ideas from art, poetry, and philosophy and that makes it recommended reading for practitioners and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy" - Ann Casement, Licensed Psychoanalyst; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Wright’s book is an invaluable contribution to the psychoanalytic literature. It considers the process of early mother–infant interaction, and its significance for psychoanalytic technique and for understanding artistic creation, in a clear, concise, heuristically invaluable fashion. The treatment he gives to the concept of projective identification and its technical implications is the most useful I have encountered. I strongly recommend this book to all psychoanalysts at all levels of experience...It deserves a place in every psychoanalyst’s library" – Martin A. Silverman, Psychoanalytic Quarterly - Vol. LXXX, No I, 2011


"This lucidly written account of seminal concepts from Bion, Stern and Winnicott, brings them vividly to life through integrating them into an interdisciplinary work that incorporates ideas from art, poetry, and philosophy and that makes it recommended reading for practitioners and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy." - Ann Casement, Licensed Psychoanalyst; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Wright’s book is an invaluable contribution to the psychoanalytic literature. It considers the process of early mother–infant interaction, and its significance for psychoanalytic technique and for understanding artistic creation, in a clear, concise, heuristically invaluable fashion. The treatment he gives to the concept of projective identification and its technical implications is the most useful I have encountered. I strongly recommend this book to all psychoanalysts at all levels of experience...It deserves a place in every psychoanalyst’s library" – Martin A. Silverman, Psychoanalytic Quarterly - Vol. LXXX, No I, 2011

Kenneth Wright is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Suffolk and a Patron of the Squiggle Foundation. A well known commentator on Winnicott, he lectures nationally and internationally and has published papers on psychoanalysis, the creative arts and religion. His book Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby (1991) was awarded the Margaret S. Mahler Literature Prize (1992).

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ISBN 13 9780415468305
ISBN 10 0415468302
Title Mirroring and Attunement
Author Kenneth Wright
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2009-04-23
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.