This book will stimulate readers to contemplate knowing and being known from multiple perspectives. It bursts with thought-provoking ideas and intriguing cases illuminated by penetrating reflections from diverse theoretical perspectives.

Brent Willock, PhD, Founding President, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Board Member, Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Faculty, Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology; Advisory Board, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Ionas Sapountzis, PhD, Director of the School Psychology program and faculty member and supervisor in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Child, Adolescent and Family Psychotherapy programs, and Associate Professor at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University.

Rebecca Coleman Curtis, PhD, Supervisor of Psychotherapy with the Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Alliance and author of Desire, Self, Mind and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis.

Introduction Ionas Sapountzis & Rebecca Coleman Curtis

Knowing through Dreams

1. Dreams: The Known, Unknown, Being Known and Learning to Know Robert I. Watson, Jr.
2. The Escape from Alligator Mom Robert Akeret
3. Failure to Launch: Waiting to be Known/Dreading Being Known Stephen Hyman
4. On Knowing the Future Brent Willock

Knowing Through Appearances

5. The Secrets of Eating and the Eating of Secrets: Daring to be Known Jean Petrucelli

6. The Analytic Dialogue: Looking at and Listening to Each Other Anita Weinreb Katz

Dreading and Longing to be Known

7. The Little Girl and Detective Monk Ionas Sapountzis

8. I won't know you if you won't know me: Irrelationship and the Benefits of Bad Relationships Mark B. Borg, Jr., Grant H. Brenner, & Daniel Berry

The Analyst's Ways of Knowing and Communicating

9. Knowing and Being Known: The Effect of the Analyst's Affection Dan Perlitz

10. Winnicott's True Self/False Self Concept: Using Countertransference to Uncover the True Self MaryBeth Cresci

11. Knowing Myself Through Knowing Him Harriette Kaley

12. Spiritual Knowing, Not Knowing, and Being Known Nina Cerfolio

Knowing in the Contemporary Sociocultural Context

13. Income Inequality and Psychoanalytic Practice: An Unexamined Juxtaposition John O'Leary

14. Invisible Immigration: Family Building across Borders and Bodies Anne Malavé

15. Madoff's Family Business: If the Sons Didn't Know. Psychodynamics of a Financial Fraud Claudia Diez

16. Catfishing: The New Impostor Danielle Knafo

The Known Analyst

17. The Therapist Revealed: Who Knows What, When? Bruce Hammer

18. Dialectics of Desire: Longing and Fear of Being 'Known' in the Injured Analyst Marsha Aileen Hewitt

No Longer Known

19. The Altered Brain and the Illusion of Knowing J. Gail White & Michelle Flax

20. The Unrecognized Analyst Jeffrey Sacks

Concluding Thoughts Ionas Sapountzis