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OverviewAn epic rollercoaster ride that provokes us to realise that life cannot be explained or thought out it can only make sense through major areas of feeling that resist interpretation and display no underlying logic. This is the first book from the Future Perfect Trilogy by Martin Stanton. Still Life and Timeout will follow over the next few years. With 17 colour illustrations. A literary masterpiece from world-renowned psychoanalyst and distinguished writer, Professor Martin Stanton that picks up the baton from R. D. Laing. Spanning a novel, travel-guide, documentary, self-help book, play, photo album, film script, and work of art, Making Sense is a cultural phenomenon a long overdue wake-up call railing at society's idealisation and narcissism. Martin Stanton has created a guide for a postmodern world that is constructed through social media, and communicates principally through tweets, texts and selfies. Like Homer's Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious universe of uncontrolled feeling, which traps fragments of fantasy in the retreating tides of reality. Making Sense collects together a group of major and minor characters, some real, some imaginary, who set out to make sense of life together by opening the social media gate between Reality and Fantasy. A survey of Martin Stanton's own thinking and feeling on his original psychoanalytic odyssey across becalmed seas, random conversations with a therapeutic parrot, stranded for a while with Socrates on the black sandy beach of Paradise, he explores how a bezoar stone, a caddis insect, and a karaoke moment can linger through his life, and make sense for him as a primary source; as unconscious effects which sustain, enlighten, and entertain him through darker times. This book scrawls a message of hope in the sand once the outgoing tide has retreated. 'Enjoy life', it says. 'Celebrate it in yourself and in others.' AUTHOR: Martin Stanton is a writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. He studied at Dartford Grammar School, St Antony's College, Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He founded the first Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent in 1980. He has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He founded and directed the Staff Counselling and Mediation Service at University College London in 2000, and has held senior clinical posts as a psychotherapist, counsellor, and mediator within the NHS. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin StantonPublisher: Karnac Books Imprint: Phoenix Publishing House Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9781912691555ISBN 10: 1912691558 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 30 November 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the author Seatbelt sign (Pre)conception In the beginning Learning curve: how to start to make sense Mirror stage No direction home Muse Thumper bumper Jewel in the crown Trauma time Fish out of water Threshold First foot Changing tracks Life class Outside beauty: Helen explains Living doll Siren Bird of paradise Background music In tune Karaoke Someone like you Swansong Swallow Blind date Dreamer Pedestal Ending (up or down and out)ReviewsThere are echoes of the psychiatrist RD Laing's understanding of the distressed mind as loaded with symbols that are rich and meaningful to the individual. They are therefore helpful and should not be medicated away or ignored. . . .The author explores the way we use technology to mediate our interactions with our emotional worlds. The theme of 'not knowing' also runs through the book and is, in fact, a challenge for the reader. . . . There are imaginative and surreal evocations of the mind . . . Such descriptions, and it is difficult to them justice here, are loaded with rich metaphors for both the client and the therapist, as they grapple to understand the 'entire span' of a life history. . . . The book is so densely imaginativethat it is a challenge to follow at times. . . . It's a wild rollercoaster ride, difficult to describe and stay with, but with some astonishing images along the way. Perhaps like our minds. --Helen Lowe, Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2020 Are we being taken for a ride? Certainly. Martin Stanton audaciously unzips and spills the traditions of radical psychoanalytic thought into the contemporary moment, unleashing lines of flight into the vital forces of art, dream, imagination, and wit. This book will be an inspiration for all those who feel dismay at their role in a society that is increasingly out of order. Caught as we are on the narrow rails of the neoliberal rollercoaster, where science and reason are applied as the desperate brakes on the psychosocial ravages of economic individualism and ruling class power, this book switches the tracks. It unfetters the liberatory vision of a therapeutic education that acknowledges the beauty and terrors of a search for freedom beating at the heart of the therapeutic enterprise. Whether looking at Facebook or works of art as bearers of a benign gaze or as a trap, this vital book challenges all professional talking heads to stop making sense and to start sense making in our practice. Kevin Jones, Head of Department, Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London Martin Stanton is an internationally known and respected author, teacher, and researcher in the field of psychoanalysis. An early contribution led to a first prototype Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, in 1986. His book, Sandor Ferenczi: Reconsidering Active Intervention (Aronson/Free Association, 1991) created a Ferenczi renaissance which brought Ferenczi's contributions into international recognition which continues to this day. Stanton is a highly original and creative author. This book, Making Sense, continues Stanton's critique of psychoanalytic conventional thinking. He questions the accepted analytic technique of 'interpretation' as relying on a basic misunderstanding of life. He criticises the cognitive approaches to treatment as rigid and wrong-headed. Stanton emphasises the important place of feelings over thinking. His thinking is based on Freud's original definition of the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis: 'free association'. His expansive and highly original thinking is based on his recognising the lack of an 'ultimate meaning in life'. This gives him the freedom and the space to go beyond the inherent limitations of society's (and analytic) ways of viewing life. His book will provide important insights not only for psychoanalysis but also into our experience of living. With his fine international reputation, Martin Stanton's new book Making Sense will receive widespread acclaim. I am happy to recommend his new book to you and I, personally and as a psychoanalyst, look forward to reading it. Axel Hoffer, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and former Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Author InformationMartin Stanton is a writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. He studied at Dartford Grammar School, St Antony’s College, Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He founded the first Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent in 1980. He has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He founded and directed the Staff Counselling and Mediation Service at University College London in 2000, and has held senior clinical posts as a psychotherapist, counsellor, and mediator within the NHS. He has published numerous books and articles including Outside the Dream (which was reissued in 2014), Sandor Ferenczi, and Out of Order. A review of his life and work is available on Wikipedia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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