In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science.

Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Among other books, he edited The Dead Mother: The Work of André Green (1999) and British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on the Independent Tradition (2018). He also published Love and its Vicissitudes (co-authored with André Green, 2005) and Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny (2016).

Preface 1 Psychoanalysis - a literature of excess 2 "Tony": from the analysis of a psychotic young man 3 "Barbara": a symbiotic identification with an omnipotent mother imago 4 Between the fear of madness and the need to be mad 5 The heroic achievement of sanity 6 The question of uncertainty 7 What is to be done?