Eric Rhode
Eric Rhode was a psychotherapist in private practice, now retired. He is author of a number of books, including Psychotic Metaphysics, Plato's Silence: A Study in the Imagination, and Notes on the Aniconic: The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology.
Increate Light
As with all Eric Rhode’s work, we are taken on a fast-moving journey where previous travellers have left few footprints. These are faint, and soon dissolve. Accompanying us are passions, intellectual... (more)
Silence and the Disorder of Tongues
'In the active life, I can measure silence negatively as an interruption. In the contemplative life, I am without any measure. In the active life, the concept of experience is meaningful because I... (more)
Axis Mundi
'Eric Rhode takes on some of the most fundamental aspects of human experience, thought, and meaning. He journeys into fascinating corners of "monsoon Asia" - and into areas in mind and spirit that... (more)
Psychotic Metaphysics
The threshold that Melanie Klein found to exist between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions is the site of a series of transformations - extremely inducing murder or suicide - in which... (more)
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O
A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking, strongly influenced by the work of Bion.
Notes on the Aniconic: The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology
'Eric Rhode seeks to explore a domain that has long been missing in psychoanalytic psychology, the ineffable domain of ontology or existence. He describes a multi-layered, numinous domain that... (more)
On Birth and Madness
At times of birth whole families can go off the rails: the experience may be overwhelming. Eric Rhode visited a unit for mothers, many of them in puerperal breakdown. (more)
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O
A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking, strongly influenced by the work of Bion.
The Generations of Adam
This impassioned and original book is an exploration of stories - personal stories, family stories, allegories, histories, myths - and of one myth in particular: the Genesis account of creation. Eric... (more)
Plato's Silence: A Study in the Imagination
'This is an extraordinary book. The author is unique in the world of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: he strides the landscape of psychoanalytic theory and of philosophy with equal felicity as though... (more)