I downloaded the free sample of his book on Amazon and it looks very interesting to me. So thanks for that. Here is a quote from the introduction that resonates with where I am right now, “Achieving progressive fittedness does not necessarily mean meeting the patient’s needs on the terms that the patient is stating them or complying with some fantasized response that the patient is enactively pulling for. Rather it means co-creating the therapeutic conditions that best enable the patient to work and move towards her mostly implicit therapeutic aims as these become actualized in the analytic setting over time.”

I love poetry and can appreciate the beauty of it, but am not particularly good at it and am frequently confused by it. I feel that way about psychoanalysis as well.