Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice fills the gaps in current clinical training and theory by highlighting the importance of the analyst's unique voice, creativity, and embodied awareness in authentically being with and relating to patients.

Henry Markman is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley, CA. He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalyis.

Introduction 1. Creative engagement: an overture 2. The development of analytic authenticity 3. Embodied presence: the analyst's home base 4. The analyst's emotional work of surrender and mourning 5. Embodied attunement and participation 6. The analyst as improvisational accompanist 7. "One-sided analysis is no longer possible": "mutual analysis" as the analysis of mutuality 8. The radical uncertainty of psychoanalytic practice 9. Modes of therapeutic time 10. Moments of transformation and beauty 11. Process and non-process 12. Creative engagement in these times