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

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. In this original and personal account, Henry Markman provides an integrated approach toward analytic work that focuses on engaged embodied dialogue between analyst and patient, where emotional states are shared in an open circuit of communication as the route to self-discovery and growth. The involvement of the analyst's singular and spontaneous self is crucial.
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In integrated and illuminating chapters, Markman emphasizes the therapeutic importance of the analyst's embodied presence and openness, improvisational accompaniment, and love within the analytic framework. Vivid clinical vignettes illustrate the emotional work of the analyst that is necessary to be openly engaged in a mutual yet asymmetric relationship. From over 30 years of clinical practice and teaching, Markman has synthesized a variety of contemporary theories in an approachable and alive way.
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This book will appeal to psychoanalytically oriented clinicians, ranging from those beginning training to the most seasoned practitioners.