Coming Through the Whirlwind

Michael Eigen, Ph.D., author of The Psychotic Core and The Electrical Tightrope, is a senior member, Board of Directors, and control/training analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Associate Clinical Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; faculty and supervisor, Institute for Expressive Analysis and New Hope Guild. In essence, Eigen's book gives witness to a central issue of Aeschyluswe suffer into knowledgeand shows how it is embodied and animated on the stage of the clinical setting with its two throbbing props, couch and chair.



Patrick J. Mahony

author of Freud as a Writer



No other psychoanalyst writing today can command this repertoire of tones and voices. To read Eigen is to experience the moment-by-moment changes of heart that for him constitute the analytic encounter. The shrewd eloquente, the cunning sympathy and humor at work in this book are unique in psychoanalysis. lt should be celebrated with the paradoxes it is inspired by.



Adam Phillips

Principle Child Psychotherapist, Charing Cross Hospital, London, author of Winnicott



Eigen shares two cases: a woman who manifested spirituality to the exclusion of facing hovering psychological problems, and a man whose virtual obsession with psychological truths led him to omit spiritual development. This book will be of interest not only to therapists but to all who are interested in the spiritual in human life.



Jean Sanville

Editor of Clinical Social Work Journal and author of The Playground of Psychoanalytic Therapy.