This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on: *the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; *the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; *the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical readings of individual plays, covering works by J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, T. C. Murray, George Shiels, Brian Friel, and Frank McGuinness. In its insistence on the details of history, this is a book important to anyone interested in Irish culture and politics in the twentieth century.
Table of Contents:
Preface. Introduction. On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself. Narcissism Revisited. Working With the Challenging Patient. A Mind of One's Own. On Getting From Here to There. Confusion in the Analytic Hour. Sadomasochism in Clinical Practice and Everyday Life. Two Ways of Being. Psychoanalysis and Love.
About the Author :
Sheldon Bach, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Bach is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member and training analyst at the New York Freudian Society. The author of Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process (1985) and The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love (1994), he is in private practice in New York City.
Review :
"Like a sculptor who can see the form hidden within the block of stone, Sheldon Bach—most recently in his third book on narcissism…opens our eyes to the underlying structure and dynamics of narcissistic disorders. Bach’s observations and formulations are presented in an accessible, engaging and deceptively simple way, but they reflect precision of observation, clarity and sophistication of thought, deep empathy for patients, and genuine clinical wisdom. He is clearly gifted as a healer, scientist, and teacher." ---Jay Frankel, PhD
“Sheldon Bach lays bare the deep structure of psychoanalytic work, the process of developing awareness in the context of affective mutuality. His beautifully precise analysis provides an ecumenical and humane perspective on our psychic struggles and grants the essential analytic action of holding the other in mind its true significance. Presented with effortless lucidity, Getting From Here to There is a profound and practically useful integration of many strands in psychoanalytic history with contemporary understandings of attachment, regulation, and trauma.”
- Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
“Bach explores the complexities, the ambiguities, and the importance of love in and out of the analytic situation. Getting From Here to There is full of clinical wisdom; more importantly, it uncovers the center of the analyst's emotional life.”
- Steven J. Ellman, Ph.D., President, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
"Reading Sheldon Bach's Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process is an immersion into this master clinician and teacher's personal relationship with pscyhoanalysis. The gentle, rocking quality of his writing allows him to present new and far-reaching conceptualizations like a psychoanalytic lullaby, permitting the reader to relax and settle in, much as Bach's patients must. I recommend it to those in the first glow of love for psychoanalysis as well as to those who have loved it for a long, long time."
- Gemma M. Ainslie, in PsycCRITIQUES, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books
