Ofra Eshel is a faculty member, training and supervising analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); vice-president of the International Winnicott Association (IWA); founder and head of the postgraduate track "Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs" at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Her papers have been published in psychoanalytic journals and books and presented in national and international conferences all over the world. She is in private practice in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Introduction On the emergence of analytic oneness: Challenges and mysteries

Part I: Within the depths of being: Experiences in a new dimension

Chapter One The heart: Or, what¿s heart got to do with it?

Chapter Two Two-in-oneness: Transformations in O

Chapter Three Into the depths of a "black hole" and deadness

Chapter Four Whose sleep is it, anyway? Or, Night Moves

Chapter Five A beam of "chimeric" darkness: Presence, interconnectedness, and transformation in the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient convicted of sex offenses

Chapter Six Where are you, my beloved? On absence, loss, and the enigma of telepathic dreams

Chapter Seven Pentheus rather than Oedipus: On perversion, survival, and analytic "presencing"

Part II: The "voice" of breakdown

Prologue

Chapter Eight "For You have returned my soul within me with compassion": "Presencing," passion, and compassion in the depths of perversion, breakdown, despair, and deadness

Chapter Nine The "voice" of breakdown: On facing the unbearable traumatic experience in psychoanalytic work

Chapter Ten From extension to revolutionary change in clinical psychoanalysis: The radical influence of Bion and Winnicott