From Reverie to Interpretation Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis

Bion's identification of reverie as a psychoanalytic concept has drawn attention to a dimension of the analyst's experience with tremendous potential to enrich our interpretive understanding. The courage of these authors in revealing their own process of reverie as transformed into the action of psychoanalysis will inspire and foster further investigation of this fruitful yet heretofore infrequently explored area of psychoanalytic discovery.

Permissions , Introduction , Escape within , The primacy of reverie in making contact with a new couple , Come on—hold a baby’s hand , Reverie and the aesthetics of psychoanalysis , From Fairbairn to the planet Neptune: reverie and the animistic psyche , The timing of the use of reverie , Infant observation as a pathway towards experiencing reverie and learning to interpret , The magnetic compass of reverie , The couple , Courage and sincerity as a base for reverie and interpretation , Working with stone, working with psyche: the role of reverie in the process of making art and working with patients , Little Hans went alone into the wide world;* or beta elements in search of a container for meaning , The spiral of transference: from mutative interpretation to reverie

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