Psychoanalysis is often referred to a talking cure, but in this fascinating book it is the art of writing that is discussed and explored.

Including contributions from a selection of leading therapists, the book shines a psychoanalytic light on the very process through which the discipline is described. It includes chapters on the idea of creativity, the issues around a therapist's subjectivity, the challenges of describing trauma, as well as those of co-authorship.

Psychodynamics of Writing will appeal to clinicians, therapists and anyone interested in what the process of writing means.

Martin Weegmann is Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst, working in private practice and the NHS in London. He is a trainer and teacher. His latest book is Permission to Narrate: Explorations in Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture (Karnac, 2016)

1. On writing - notes from an attachment-informed psychotherapist. Jeremy Holmes
2. Finding a Creative Writing Space. Joyce Slochower
3. A Letter Always Reaches its Destination. Stephen Frosh
4. Becoming an author. Martin Weegmann
5. Mad Desire and Feverish Melancholy: reflections on the
   psychodynamics of academic writing. Nick Barwick
6. Clinical writing and the analyst's subjectivity. Lawrence Spurling
7. The transformative other: Some thoughts on the psychodynamics of co authorship. Ian S. Miller & Alistair Sweet
8. The writer in the archive: trauma, empathy, ambivalence. Phil Leask
9. An I for an I. Cheryl Moskowitz
10. Configuring words. Joan Raphael-Leff
11. Writing as rebellion. Morris Nitsun
12. Raiding the inarticulate- the clinical case study & the representation of trauma. Maggie Turp