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Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality: Six Perspectives on Turning-to versus Turning-Away

Author(s) : Dana Amir

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Psychoanalyst and researcher Dana Amir's book Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality is another layer in her ground-breaking thinking on the interface between language and the human psyche. The book describes in an extraordinary way deep and complex clinical material and human phenomena, extracting original and crystal-clear insights, which in combination with the wide cultural range on which Amir relies and her poetic articulation - presents a unique, exciting, and cautionary reading of mental-linguistic psychopathology.
Prof. Merav Roth, psychoanalyst and cultural researcher, the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society; University of Haifa; Former chair of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program, Tel-Aviv university

The present book fits well with the central principle in Amir's thought. In the unique psychoanalytic type that she developed, which can be called "scientific-poetic", she examines what enables psychic movement versus what blocks, fetters, and limits it. Hence the main goal of the psychoanalytic treatment: enable the creation of a space where broad waves exist over large surfaces of sound and rhythm, rich in possibilities and meanings.
Prof. Aner Govrin, Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Bar-Ilan University

Dana Amir brings together music, poetry, photography, inter alia to psychoanalysis to deepen what I would like to think of as the ‘‘lyrical school of psychoanalysis.
Nilofer Kaul, PhD. Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Delhi, India; The American Journal of Psychoanalysis