Knife and Butterfly. The story of Jungian Analysis | Naomi Lloyd

This book is a truly original story about a therapeutic journey. Its unique concept is based on recordings that allowed the analyst to reproduce over eight years of collaboration with the patient. Thus, the reader is given a look inside the sacred spaces of the psychoanalyst's consulting room, where the interaction of the patient and the analyst is intertwined into a unique perspective of perception.

This "double prism of perception" gives meaning to the psychological, theoretical and emotional content presented by the patient. According to the author, no previously published story about the journey through analysis has managed to bring the reader as close to direct and deep analytical relationships as the presented material does..

Excerpts from the recordings create an accurate representation of the joint dialogue, which is not available in one-sided reports written later either only by the patient or by the analyst.. An additional unique feature is how theoretical content grows out of this interaction.. Being a practicing psychotherapist by the final period of analysis, the author, like the analyst, can reflect on the problems they faced, both from a theoretical and emotional point of view. Their sincere exchange of opinions gives an intimacy to this journey into the world of Jung.