Books by Michael Eigen

Penetrating look at human relatedness by one of the field's most innovative thinkers.

Explores ways we make contact with the depths in ourselves and each other. This title focuses on ways we make-and-break contact in the wounded aloneness of addiction, the wounded beauty of psychosis, the importance of not knowing and wordlessness, and harm we cause by trying to get rid of and misuse tendencies that are part of our makeup.

Contains conversations that provide an insight into the mind of one of the most original psychoanalysts - Michael Eigen. This book covers various subjects, spread over a wide range of interest, which Michael Eigen talks about. It aims at helping readers to enter the ideas of Eigen more directly than they could have via Eigen's books and papers.

As long as feelings are second-class citizens, people will be second class citizens. Experience is an endangered species. An important function of psychotherapy is to make time for experiencing. This book aims to build psychic taste buds, not put them down or pretend they don't exist.

A profound look at the origins of patient's maladies and the way they lead their lives. The author describes the analyses leading to de-programing these patients from their toxins and intoxicators. The spirits of Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan grace the text.

The Challenge of Being Human explores tendencies that make us up and capacities that try to meet them. The shock of ourselves is perennial. We are challenged by our own aliveness and a need to open doors as yet unknown. We are not done evolving, growing, learning, feeling, caring.

A transcription of a three day, eighteen hour seminar given by author in Seoul in 2009. It takes forward and complements the Seoul seminar in 2007. It includes clinical and cultural concerns, the state of our persons and nations, how we feel, get along with ourselves, and obstacles that dog us but are undefined or defined wrongly.

Michael Eigen relates the stories of two patients reshaping their lives into something they could believe in, and examines the complex roles of the therapist and therapy, self/other and mind/body relations, and the dramatic interplay of faith and catastrophe.

Bold and compassionate exploration of a powerful human drive

Many people seek help because they feel dragged down by a sense of inner deadness that persists in an otherwise full and meaningful life. This book shows what is involved in enduring and working with psychic deadness in a day-to-day, session-by-session basis.

Leading psychotherapist offers compelling insights into the vital force of ecstasy.

"Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness and Faith".

Advocating a call to the return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis, the author of this text illustrates his writing with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott. In the text he expands on his call to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical experience within psychoanalysis.