About the author On the couch/divã/divan/diván/diwan: key considerations regarding the English edition Lucas Krüger Preface Daniel Kupermann Opening PART I - Listening perspectives Chapter 1. Sigmund Freud's couch-reminiscence Chapter 2. The couch, the child who lives in the adult, and the technical daring of Sándor Ferenczi Chapter 3. The couch-body of Donald Woods Winnicott Chapter 4. Didier Anzieu's skin couch Chapter 5. André Green's couch - the dream model, other contributions and misreadings Chapter 6. Thomas Ogden and privacy on the couch Chapter 7. Christopher Bollas and the evocative couch Chapter 8.

A distant couch in Jacques Lacan? Chapter 9. René Roussillon's couch in latency Chapter 10. The analyst's creative process and the couch for Melanie Klein Chapter 11. Wilfred Bion's embryonic couch Chapter 12. James Grotstein's dramaturgical and neuropsychic couch Chapter 13. The Couch as an Aid to a Filmic Script in John Munder Ross Chapter 14. Other authors and different approaches to psychoanalytic work from the couch Chapter 15. Brief final comments PART II - The poetics of psychoanalysis Chapter 1.

Introduction - An analyst's theoretical and clinical practice in dialogue with others Chapter 2. Some considerations on the history and etymology of the word couch/divan/diwan Chapter 3. Play as the essence of the psychoanalytic process Chapter 4. The psychic regions and the cloud state Chapter 5. The cloud, condensation and poetic creation: reflections on Dichter, Dichtung and Verdichtung Chapter 6. Symbolic vesture and its clinical presentations in the cloud state Chapter 7. The couch/diwan and the cloud metaphor in the clinic Final Words Extras Creation poem Provocative Considerations on Remote Online Sessions: The need for the couch or a substitute other than the gaze References.