What You Do With What You Feel: Discussion of Alan Sirote’s “The Patient Who Had Me Committed”

Donnel B. Stern, PhD, is Training and Supervising Analyst, member of the Faculty and Council of Fellows, William Alanson White Institute, New York City; Adjunct Clinical Professor and Consultant, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; founder and editor of the book series “Psychoanalysis in a New Key” at Routledge; and author of Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1997), Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment (Routledge, 2010), and the forthcoming Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (Routledge).
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