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Stories From the Bog: By Patrick B. Kavanaugh, Ph.D. Stories from the Bog… is a collection of stories and essays that call into question the medical-scientific narrative, its understandings of psychoanalysis and madness, and the identity, purpose and ethics that flow from and sustain its narrative. Gathered from meetings with people on various in-patient units and private practice, its stories place emphasis on the centrality of the Freudian unconscious in the process of listening, understanding and responding in the analytic discourse. Whereas certain identifying information and circumstances have been altered in these stories in the interests of confidentiality, the mystery, magic and muscle of the analytic discourse as a unique storytelling process remains.
Book Reviews: “Those familiar with Kavanaugh’s unique voice will enjoy this compilation of his clinical and theoretical works, in which a master storyteller and master clinician offers a unique view of psychoanalytic work as an evolving process through which meanings can be made and manifested. Those not familiar with his work are in for a treat. In an era in which scientism and constricting standards threaten to squeeze the life out of psychoanalytic theory and practice, Kavanaugh is a refreshing voice, reminding us of the richness and importance of this work and of the being-in-it-together that is the sine qua non of psychoanalysis.” DIVISION/Review - a publication of Division 39 (the Division of – Reviewed by: Marilyn Charles, staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center
“For those who are unfamiliar with Kavanaugh’s work, the book is a welcome opportunity to acquaint oneself with a practitioner who may be considered a master of long-term work with a clientele that would often be considered too severely ill to benefit from any intervention other than palliative PsycCRITIQUES – November 21, 2012, Vol. 57, Release 46, Article 7. -Reviewed by: Louis Rothchild, past membership chair of the Division of
“Patrick Kavanaugh shares with us his rich and original vision of psychoanalysis as gift, a science of subjectivity, and an art form, providing us with a profound philosophical and mystical foundation, guiding us to an understanding of mental and emotional states found in what Kavanaugh understands as the truth of the “bog”. … The bog is Kavanaugh’s metaphor – and reality – describing states of being that wander between, and deep into, madness and sanity.… His experience informs, and is informed by, his penetrating intellect, his strength as a philosopher, his scholarly inclinations, and, most importantly, his soulful humanity. … his mesmerizing, compelling, engaging spinning of tales rich in a depth understanding of unconscious process and the interaction between analyst and analysand. … Read and be inspired.” Other/Wise – Volume 9, Winter 2012. -Reviewed by: Merle Molofsky, psychoanalyst in private practice in New
“With a wry humour and piercing intellect, Dr. Kavanaugh’s Stories from the Bog…, evokes the Celtic legacy of story-telling in psychoanalysis. His bog stories are rich with meanings for theorists and practitioners of the so-called ‘talking cure.’ The over-determined meanings that they have for psychoanalysis – especially the movement’s contemporary structure, will not be lost on the reader. …With this book, Dr. Kavanaugh emerges alongside of Christopher Bollas as the most singularly erudite scholar-practitioner offering a de-construction of psychoanalysis as a health-care profession. … His writings have been required readings in my doctoral- and masters-level courses in clinical psychology for many years. They provide professionals-in-training with the sense not only of what has been lost, but, potentially, what we must struggle to regain. He offers future generations of clinicians a way out of ‘the bog’ of today’s healthcare matrix.”” -Reviewed by: David L Downing, Director of Graduate Programs in
“A scintillating book that dances on edges of the human mind. At once, challenging, reflective and enriched by details of therapeutic work.” -Reviewed by: Michael Eigen, Author, Contact With the Depths
“Dr. Kavanaugh captures the essence of the psychoanalytic enterprise. He does not demean his analysands by pathologizing the outcomes of their efforts to resolve inner conflict and he does not usurp their responsibility for their lives because those efforts may be uncomfortable. Through the use of the interpretive process, he invites the analysand’s awareness of the artistic way in which the dynamic forces within are resolved and the skill with which that resolution is communicated in words and behavior. Moreover, he vividly calls our attention to the fact that Psychoanalysis is best viewed and understood as an art akin to other cultural institutions such as myths, philosophies, and aesthetic creations rather than as an unwanted stepchild of an increasingly technocratic medical system. Not surprisingly, this book is itself a work of psychoanalytic art by one of its most creative practitioners. -Reviewed by: Marvin Hyman, Ph.D., psychoanalyst and former president of:
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