The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion
"This is a marvellously integrative work. The author is a widely read Jungian analyst who has created bridges between depth psychology and Wilfred Bion's contributions as well as contextualizing each of them in the matrix of relatedness, extending the currently evolving two-person model of the analytic situation. Relatedness, she shows, is the sine qua non of being alive and consequently the real key to how analysis works. Analyst and analysand are both "patients" in the presence of emotions and the (unequal) effect of them upon each other. I recommend this book to all mental health professionals."–James Grotstein, Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of California and New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, USA"One of the most neglected features of theory and practice in psycho-analysis and psycho-analytic therapy is the simple fact that healing comes about through a relationship between two persons.  Psychotherapy is not a thing, it is not a machine but a living relationship between two people.  Healing comes about through an emotional contact; this contact is creative and healing.  Barbara Sullivan has made this the corner-stone of her building and she has done it clearly and bravely.  I say bravely because she challenges respected authors and shows how their tonal descriptions annihilate the personal.  This is a wonderful book and will be a treasure for psychotherapists and patients.  It also opens up a whole new vision of what psychotherapy will, I hope, become in the next few decades."-Neville Symington, author ofA Pattern of Madness, Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and Past President of the Australian Psycho-Analytical Society"Sullivan explores the theories of two difficult analysts, Jung and Bion, explaining their ideas clearly and demonstrating how each of their perspectives enriches the other's. Her detailed clinical material makes her thinking come alive and should help clinicians of any perspective to deepen their work."- Marjorie Nathanson, Past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and member of the IAAP Executive Committee"This is a generous and personal book which will contribute to the growing interest in the Jungian community in the links between Jung and Bion...The lucidity of Sullivan’s style will ensure a wide readership, not confined only to clinicians but to a wider public interested in culture, the arts and philosophy."– Geraldine Godsil, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 56, 2011