The author studies his own dream of a colleague’s death, linking the content of his dream and the actual death of the colleague in his sleep, both of which occurred the same night. Proposing a model of dream construction, the author integrates perception and archetypal imagery. Theories of Jung, Bion, and contemporary consciousness research are…[Read more]

This chapter discusses the author’s twin careers as a visual artist and psychoanalyst. As an artist,
the author describes his imaginative process occurring in a dissociative trance. Artmaking and
being a psychoanalytic patient are related practices taking place in an altered state of
consciousness and creating an atmosphere where anything is p…[Read more]

This chapter discusses the author’s twin careers as a visual artist and psychoanalyst. As an artist, the author describes his imaginative process occurring in a dissociative trance. Artmaking and being a psychoanalytic patient are related practices taking place in an altered state of consciousness and creating an atmosphere where anything is p…[Read more]

Consideration of clinical mistakes in psychoanalysis. Examples provided from author’s practice.

Implications of telepathy.

An examination of Freud’s complex response to telepathy.

Errors are a part of life and clinical mistakes are frequent. The author examines some of the
ways that errors or mistakes permeate all areas of life, pointing out their frequency in human
interaction, in research, in ordinary judgment, whether in daily largely trivial matters, or in
significant matters of life and death. In some instances, a…[Read more]

History of thought transference in psychoanalysis.

Instance of thought transference in a psychoanalytic session.

First chapter of book, authored with my patient Frank Toich, Psychoanalysis, intersubjective writing, and a postmaterialist model of mind: I woke up dead.