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Leanne Domash has created a fascinating scholarly and imaginative journey for the reader to psychoanalytic wonderland. The book is a tour de force, linking and exploring a broad range of
essential knowledge pertaining to psychoanalysis. In a cascading array of engaging chapters, with compelling titles, Domash addresses (1) Arrival in Wonderland, encompassing the anxiety of creation, and hopes and goals; (2) Spirituality and the imagination; (3) Unconscious communication and the uncanny; (4) The neuropsychology of “aha” moments; (5) The biology of imagination; (6) Transformative dreamwork: Embodied Imagination; (7) Trauma: imagination interrupted; (8) How art heals; and (9) Desire's arousal.
The richness of these chapters with these engaging themes brings us to Wonderland, but they do not fly away to Never Never Land. Major themes of psychoanalysis keep us fascinated, but grounded. Early on, Domash addresses entering transitional space with analysands.
Domash offers possibilities that have been discussed in psychoanalytic theory, but not yet universally accepted, such as telepathic communication between psychoanalyst and patient. Domash keeps us focused by turning to neuropsychology. Certainly, a number of psychoanalysts who are also neuroscientists have capably, indeed, admirably, linked psychoanalytic thinking with neuroscience. Domash is a capable researcher, and she draws on their work to illuminate her own experience in this area. For instance, she introduces her interest in telepathic communication, leading to her own deep interest in these processes, and cites the work of Alejandro Pérez et al. and Jan Ehrenwald .
As psychoanalyst and analysand become intensely attuned to each other,
thoughts pass between patient and therapist … even at a distance, such as when patient or therapist becomes aware of something about the other when not in each other's presence. …. Unconscious communications or seemingly telepathic phenomena have been reported by writers … who ha