The Play Within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process

In The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process Gil Katz presents and illustrates the &quote;enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process.&quote; He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious, continuously evolving, dynamically meaningful process.Using clinical examples, including several extended case reports, Gil Katz demonstrates how in all treatments, a new version of the patient's early conflicts, traumas, and formative object relationships is inevitably created, without awareness or intent, in the here-and-now of the analytic dyad. Within the enacted dimension, repressed or dissociated aspects of the patient's past are not just remembered, they are re-lived. Katz shows how, when the enacted dimension becomes conscious, it forms the basis for genuine and transforming experiential insight.

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Gil Katz is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty Member, and Supervising Analyst at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where he also chairs the Faculty and Curriculum Committee of the Contemporary Freudian Track. He is a Faculty Member and Fellow (Training and Supervising Analyst) at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), where he has also served as Dean of Training. Dr. Katz teaches courses on enacted processes in psychoanalytic treatment at both institutes.

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Introduction. Section I: Theoretical Evolution. In the Beginning: The Talking Cure and the Problem of Action. Forerunners: The Transference-Countertransference Matrix. Enactment: The Emergence of a New Concept. Section II: The Enacted Dimension of Analytic Process. Where the Action Is: The Second Dimension of Analytic Process. Clinical Illustrations: Reliving Preverbal and Unformulated Experience in the Enacted Dimension. Clinical Illustration: An Enacted Process within an Enacted Process. Interaction in Psychoanalysis: Across and Through the Interspychic "Cat-Flap". Enactment and Analytic Technique: What We Can Learn from John Lennon and Microwave Ovens. Enactment and Actualization in a Thirteen Year Treatment. The Enacted Dimension of Analytic Supervision: The Parallel Process Phenomenon. Section III: Trauma and the Enacted Dimension. Dissociative Identity Disorder and the Enacted Dimension. Object Loss and Mourning in the Enacted Dimension. Transgenerational Transmission of the Holocaust Trauma in the Enacted Dimension. Section IV: Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers).