Ken Fuchsman (EdD) was President of the International Psychohistorical Association from 2016 to 2020. He is Emeritus faculty from the University of Connecticut, where he taught American history, interdisciplinary studies, the nature of being human, and the family in interdisciplinary perspective, and was Executive Programme Director of the Bachelor of General Studies Programme. Along with Michael Maccoby, Dr Fuchsman co-edited Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump, published by Routledge.

Keri S. Cohen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Board-Certified Diplomate in clinical social work. She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Lancaster, PA. Her work is with adults, adolescents and children. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice and holds a certificate from the William Alanson White Institute's Online Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Programme. She is a published writer, has presented papers at national and international conferences, and is a co-moderator of the international online Studying Eigen group. She teaches and has attended Michael Eigen's Bion seminars for nearly 15 years.

PART I: BREATHING INTO LIFE

CHAPTER ONE

Rebirth: It's Been Around A Long Time

Michael Eigen

PART II: EIGEN IN TIME

CHAPTER TWO

Michael Eigen: A Personal Retrospective

Robin Bagai

CHAPTER THREE

On the Importance of Time as a Background Object

Keri Cohen

CHAPTER FOUR

Healing Longing in the Midst of Damage: Eigen Psychoanalytic Vision

Loray Daws

PART III: TASTING THE PSYCHE THROUGH EIGEN'S WRITINGS

CHAPTER FIVE

Breakdown and Recovery: Going Berserk and other rhythmic concerns

Louis Rothschild

CHAPTER SIX

Reading the Works of Mike Eigen in India:Artist of the Invisible

Shalini Masih

CHAPTER SEVEN

Chasing the Uncatchable: Mystery and Metaphor in the work of Michael Eigen

Sean Harrell

CHAPTER EIGHT

Michael Eigen and the Evolution of Psyche

Robin Bagai

CHAPTER NINE

On Not Knowing Michael Eigen

Alitta Kullman

CHAPTER TEN

Canvassing Illusion and Faith in Fragmentation - An Indian Perspective

Ashis Roy

CHAPTER ELEVEN

More than a Word: Reverberations between Eigen's Notions of Deadness/Aliveness and Bion's Grid

Adam Schechter

CHAPTER TWELVE

Psychoanalysis a Prayer: The Construction and breakdown of Faith in Dissociative States

Neetu Sarin

PART IV: Spirituality and Becoming

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Difficulties of Faith

Rachel Berghash and Katherine Jillson

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Unity of Opposites": Hope in Psychodrama Group Psychotherapy Based on the Jewish Hassidic Spiritual Approach and Michael Eigen's Psychospiritual Relational Approach

Ziva Gidron

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The influence of the Kabbalah's conception of Eros on the psychoanalytic Eros, according to Michael Eigen

Ruth Golan

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

"My Kingdom for a Widdler" Michael Eigen: A Beta-Watcher's Midwife

Stefanie Teitlebaum

PART V: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Frame

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Elemental Contact: From Madness to Mysticism in Celebrating the works of Michael Eigen

Burt Seitler

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Missed Opportunities in the History of Psychoanalysis

Howard Covitz

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Elemental Contact: From Madness to Mysticism Celebrating the Work of Michael Eigen

Willow Pearson

CHAPTER TWENTY

Permission and Gratitude: Michael Eigen's Gateway to Possibility and Freedom

Merle Molofsky