Grounded in clinical examples, the text focuses on the challenges posed by working at a historical moment that, if fully taken in, presents us all—patients and analysts/therapists—with “more than mind can endure.” This “too muchness” makes it particularly difficult to maintain our consulting rooms as “safe” spaces. The basic question: how to preserve a sense of safety in our clinical work while we simultaneously remain open to the disruptive and often unrepresentable dangers that surround and infiltrate us.
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