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(Ed.) (2007). Listening to Others: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Empathy and Attunement. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson. 146 pp.
This volume is made up of papers from the 2006 Margaret S. Mahler Symposium and edited by Akhtar who provides a integrative and scholarly paper to introduce the topic, He frames the discussion in terms of two poles of analytic listening, ‘credulous’ and ‘skeptical’; good analytic work requires both in varying combinations. In the papers that follow, Schwaber focuses on the patient's experience of being listened to; Benjamin considers the interpersonal process of empathic rupture and repair; and Jacobs looks at the analyst's elaboration of his listening experience and the way this may contribute to his understanding of his patient.
(Ed.) (2007). Elokuva ja psyyke. Verhon takana [The Film and the Psyche. Behind the Curtain]. Jyväskylä: Minerva. 157 pp.
Films may touch our archaic desires and test the limits of our empathy. How deeply can we put our soul into the fictive characters and identify with Peeping Tom, Bill's odyssey of orgies in Eyes Wide Shut, Melanie's horror in The Birds, or the Finnish war children transferred to Sweden during the Second World War? How about the human fate in The Human Stain or in Sabina Spielrein's life? These are some of the issues raised in the papers by six Finnish psychoanalysts collected in this volume.
and (2007). Biology of Freedom. New York: Other Press. 254 pp.
This volume, the collaborative effort of a psychoanalyst and a neuroscientist, was originally published in French in 2004, under the title A Chacun Son Cerveau. The authors present a model in which the realms of psychoanalysis and neuroscience can be seen as linked together by the concept of neural plasticity. The book is beautifully written and easy to follow. In each chapter, the story of a human experience is elaborated in terms of analytic constructs, then in terms of the neural mechanisms th