D. Knafo

The Uninvited Guest: Psychosis and the Unprepared Analyst Discussion of Shelley J. Klein’s “The Breakdown Happened—And What I Could Not Hear”

This discussion of Shelley J. Klein’s “The Breakdown Happened—and What I Could Not Hear” honors the clinical courage required to write honestly about a case that unraveled and uses her paper as an occasion to examine what psychoanalytic training has failed to prepare clinicians to hear. The author argues that the relat...