Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation To Imagination by Donnel B. Stern
From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis
This work proposes that much of human life is lived as “unformulated experience”—felt but not yet symbolized—and that dissociation, more than repression, organizes these unarticulated states. Within a relational-constructivist perspective, meaning emerges in dialogue, as clinician and patient co-create language and images that give shape to previously unspeakable experience. The clinical task is to cultivate curiosity, play, and imagination so that split-off self-states can be recognized and integrated, opening new possibilities for living. Through theory and case material, it shows how uncertainty, mutual influence, and emergent meaning drive therapeutic change.
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- 1997
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- English
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