Background
Eigen, Michael was born on January 11, 1936 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Sol and Jeanette (Brody) Eigen.
( The pain and rewards of depth therapy revealed in two c...)
The pain and rewards of depth therapy revealed in two case studies. 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 Aeschylus—we suffer into knowledge—and 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, 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.
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(A profound look at the origins of patient's maladies and ...)
A profound look at the origins of patient's maladies and the way they lead their lives. The author describes the analyses leading to de-programing these patients from their toxins and intoxicators. The spirits of Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan grace the text.
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We are organized around the double coordinates of mind-body and self-other, says author Michael Eigen. The story of therapy is, in part, the story of how the unconscious sense of self-other and mind-body expands to allow a fuller, more open self to emerge. This volume centers around the therapies of two individuals. Lynn and Les came of age in the 1960s, and their inner beings were stamped with the turmoil and personalist sensibility of that era. As the ensuing years swept them on into careers, marriage and family, they felt a nagging sense that something was lacking. Their lives were full but disappointing. Les and Lynn’s dissatisfaction is mirrored in the problems being experienced by many others of their generation. The cut-throat world of business in which Les operated and the bureaucratic school system of which Lynn was a part worked against expression and fulfillment of their personal values. They needed help in finding ways to pursue their careers and fashion productive lives that were congruent with who they felt they were. Without this help, they were in danger of losing what was most precious to them: their very sense of self was being corroded by destructive forces they could not cope with. Unfolding on these pages is the story of how Les and Lynn struggled through the fears involved in initiating the changes necessary to reshape their lives and their selves into something they could affirm and believe in – something at once useful and fulfilling for themselves and their communities. The therapist’s personal experience and reflections are very much a part of this book. Paralleling the accounts of the defining moments in Les’s and Lynn’s therapies are the author’s candid observations about what he felt at the time and what he feels now, many years later. In readable, engaging prose, the author examines the complex roles of therapist and therapy, including self-other and mind-body relations, the dramatic interplay of faith and catastrophe, primary process, and other elements of the psychotherapy process that allow one to experience the damaged self and move beyond it.
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Most psychoanalysts tend to be anti-mystical or , at least, non-mystical. Psychoanalysis is allied with science and, if anything, is capable of deconstructing mystical experience. Yet some psychoanalysts tend to be mystical or make use of the mystical experience as an intuitive model for psychoanalysis. Indeed, the greatest split in the psychodynamic movement, between Freud and Jung, partly hinged on the way in which mystical experience was to be understood. Michael Eigen has often advocated and encouraged a return to the spiritual in psychoannalysis-what Freud called the oceanic feeling. Here he expands on his call to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical experience within psychoanalysis, illustrating his writing with the work of Bion, Milner, and Winncott. Like Bion, he explicitly relates psychoanalysis to faith. Both patient and analyst are immersed in each other and this immersion restores and enriches, and drains. Each has the chance to use their minds and feelings creatively. Each has to hold faith that something good will come of their work together. Professor Eigen, who received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate Faculty in 1974, has maintained this passion through a career that includes nineteen books, hundreds of journal papers, and forty years of work in clinical psychology. He is currently Associate Clinical Professor in NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and also a training and control analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) where he has served on the Board of Directors.
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(Understanding the psychodynamics of madness is essential ...)
Understanding the psychodynamics of madness is essential to the therapy of most patients, including those who are not diagnosed as mad in the literal sense. This volume draws on Freud, Jung, recent object relation and self psychologies, and, particularly, the work of Winnicott, Bion and Elkin. It describes and critiques the basic ideas on the dynamics of psychoses and provides a framework for interpretation. "This book is a rich phenomenological and psychodynamic exploration of "the mad dimension of life", a discussion which has both breadth and depth. Eigen must certainly rank amongst the foremost of contemporary analytic therapists and theorists who are making significant steps in furthering our understanding of madness. Any clinician who has ever attempted to understand the thoughts and experiences of psychotic patients will find much that is illuminating and well described in this book." -- Phil Mollon in British Journal of Psychiatry "An extraordinary book. Reading "The Psychotic Core" not only becomes an excursion through the (universal) elements of psychosis, but evolves into an encounter with the psychotic process itself. Eigen is, however, fundamentally a psychoanalyst in his approach and method, and his analytic view constitutes both a framework for interpretation and a mode of knowing. By listening to psychosis, by understanding its presence, by looking at (and interpreting) its symbolizations, we enhance our knowledge of what it means to live in a historical project that finds itself affected by periodic eruptions of a cultural and political madness." -- James M. Glass in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease " (This book) is one of the finest treatises I have ever read on the subject. It is solidly clinical and pragmatic on one hand, and yet it is a piece of exquisite, artistic phenomenology on the other. Eigen's concept of madness elegantly spans what we ordinarily mean by borderline states as well as the formal psychotic states. The work is a very creatively integrative one. The pigments on his palette include Freud, Jung, Bion, Winnicott, and many others." -- James Grotstein in Psychotherapy & Social Science Review (Previously published 1993 by Jason Aronson Inc)
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Eigen, Michael was born on January 11, 1936 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Sol and Jeanette (Brody) Eigen.
He took his Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and his Philosophy Doctor in 1974, and trained as psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, before becoming one of the directors of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.
Eigen began by working with troubled children in his twenties, before moving on to treat adults. Described by Adam Phillips as bringing with him “a new kind of moral seriousness”, Eigen is self-confessedly interested in “varieties of spiritual experience and how the psychological and spiritual fuse”, while remaining aware that such “Psyche-talk can sound weird, extravagant, crazy..arouse suspicion and rejection by our normative self”. He drew (among other psychoanalytic mystics) on the work of West. R. Bion, particularly in his conception of O as the unknowable reality.
Eigen saw early experience as marked by an innocent, uncomplicated relation to life, which could be lost in early infancy.
He was also interested in Freud"s idea of the prevalence of the Narcissistic wound in human experience.
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(We are organized around the double coordinates of mind-bo...)
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Member National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.
Married Betty Gitelman, December 27, 1980. Children: David Joshua, Jacob Paul.