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Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective

Author(s) : Zipi Rosenberg Schipper

Table of Contents

Part 1: What is Spoken Testimony?
1. What are we Talking about When Discussing Spoken Testimony?
2. A Paradigmatic Change in the Image of Oral Testimony
3. Various Aspects and Images of Personal Testimony
4. Spoken Testimony, its epistemological Status and Its value Standing
5. Types of Spoken Testimony

Part 2: Testimony as a Therapeutic Function in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
1. The Roles of Personal Testimony in Our Lives
2. The Function of Testimony in Psychoanalysis and in Psychotherapy
3. The History of Psychoanalysis’s Attitude to the Testimonies of Patients
4. Rrecognizing the Power of the Function of testimony in Therapy
5. A review of the writings of psychoanalytic researchers on the function of testimony in therapy
6. A Unique kind of Patient's Testimony in the Therapeutic Process
7. Summary of the main characteristics of the therapist as a witness and the patient’s testimony
8. Why Testimony and Why Now?

Epilogue