Chapter One: Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman Finding unconscious fantasyChapter Two: Nancy R. Goodman The “Finding Theater”: a schema for finding unconscious fantasy Chapter Three: Paula L. Ellman Finding unconscious fantasy: Contact and therapeutic action Chapter Four: Werner Bohlebor The psychoanalytic treatment of an adult patient traumatized in early childhood" Chapter Five: Nancy R. Goodman The impossible and the possible: finding unconscious fantasy dimensions in Werner Bohleber’s case of Mr. AChapter Six: Elias M da Rocha Barros and Elizabeth L. da Rocha Barros Unconscious phantasy: discussion of Werner Bohleber’s caseChapter Seven: Paula L. Ellman A Soma case of painChapter Eight: Marilia Aisenstein Painful transference and pains of transference: discussion of Paula Ellman’s caseChapter Nine: Batya Monder Discussion of Dr. Paula Ellman’s caseChapter Ten: Irene Cairo Babette, interruptedChapter Eleven: Harriet I. Basseches Discussion of Dr. Irene Cairo's case: Babette, interruptedChapter Twelve: Catalina Bronstein Noises and voices: discussion on Babette, interrupted" Chapter Thirteen: Janice S. Lieberman Not quite a princessChapter Fourteen: Carolyn S. Ellman Mirror, mirror on the wall: who’s the fairest of us all? Comments on Janice Lieberman’s case : "Not quite a princess" Chapter Fifteen: Ilany Kogan The broken doll: discovering the unconscious fantasy in the case of KarenChapter Sixteen: Dori Laub and Nanette C. Auerhahn Unconscious traumatic fantasyChapter Seventeen: Robert Oelsner The dawn of unconscious phantasyChapter Eighteen: Arlene Kramer Richards Fantasy and traumaChapter Nineteen: Rogelio Sosnik Searching unconscious phantasy

"Reading this book leads to deeper and more secret levels of the psychoanalytic experience, those that allow a contact with the Unconscious and its fantasies which, from obscurity, steer and powerfully influence the destiny of individuals, groups and sometimes entire nations. The path of exploration chosen by the authors is the most effective and convincing: the clinic, presented here at a high quality level and complemented by refined and harmoniously consistent theoretical reflections. This publication has a decidedly international flavor and provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive view on the subject of unconscious fantasies, a dimension of the human psyche about which Psychoanalysis has developed a specific and absolutely unparalleled expertise."-Stefano Bolognini, President, International Psychoanalytical Association. "Nancy Goodman and Paula Ellman propose a creative structure for revisiting the concept of Unconscious Fantasy. A dialogue is developed among excellent clinicians/authors belonging to different psychoanalytic cultures, based on clinical presentations. They focus on 'finding the unconscious fantasy in the psychoanalytic encounter' which 'brings processing and meaning to what was previously unrecognized'-- in my words an 'as yet situation' - even in situations of trauma or physical pain. This book generously opens multiple perspectives, so the readers continue this dialogue exploring how they create in their own work the best conditions with their patients for the unspoken to be heard. I highly recommend this book."-Haydée Faimberg, author of The Telescoping of Generations."An essential text book for all psychotherapists and psychoanalysts on how to discover the unconscious fantasy in psychoanalytic treatment. This book may be read as a mystery novel with two smart detectives, Nancy R. Goodman and Paula L. Ellman, in search of discovering the unconscious fantasies of the clinical cases of body pain and trauma with colleagues from across the globe of analytic thinking."-David Rosenfeld, MD, Ex Vice President IPA, Professor for Buenos Aires University, recipient of Sigourney and Hayman Awards and author of The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria."Character is destiny, and unconscious fantasies form the mind-molding DNA that pattern each person’s unique character. In these engaging remarkably candid contributions, clinicians of diverse theoretical backgrounds offer clinical reports alive in their actuality, each account followed by a dialogue of serious questions and reflections. These frank discussions expose and explore the rocky paths by which those hidden soul-shaping fantasies can be uncovered. This is analysis in vivo. Reading this work offers the stimulation and learning that comes from taking part in a seminar with master clinicians. Here, analysis lives."-Warren S. Poland, M.D., author of Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis."Paula Ellman and Nancy Goodman have produced a most unusual book that functions at one and the same time on a number of different levels. The book itself can perhaps be best considered as scholarly research in action. It brings together writers from varying clinico-theoretical orientations, asking each to consider the concept of unconscious phantasy not as a theoretical concept but as something discovered, a living evolving phenomenon in their clinical work. The editors in their scholarly introduction, foreground a tension in psychoanalysis that takes it origin at the earliest beginnings of our discipline- a kind of clinico-theoretic bifurcation between the concepts of ‘trauma’ and ‘unconscious fantasy. The editors are to be congratulated on having done much to repair this split and in so doing show how different ways of thinking can enrich each other. The book will be a most valuable research and clinical reference, a real ‘workbook’ for all psychoanalytically oriented clinicians"-David Bell, author of Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective.