The Power of Connection

"Jane Hall gives us a 'fresh,' melodic, openminded and profound text that deserves readers who 'know how to listen'. Her progressive vision of psychoanalysis, born of experience and love of healing, is wise and courageous, demystifying what is merely formalist and pointing to the truth.
A valuable book to recognize and protect the most authentic values of our psychoanalytic work." -STEFANO BOLOGNINI, IPA Past President

"Jane Hall weaves a creative tapestry of psychoanalytic thinking, clinical work, neuroscience and child development. This tapestry is interwoven with strands of poetry and music. Probing many of the traditional assumptions of psychoanalytic theory, The Power of Connection always returns to the essential question: how do therapists and patients connect in conversation and how does that conversation lead to change. An engaging and enlightening read for all in the mental health field."
-KERRY MALAWISTA PHD, author, When the Garden isn't Eden, and Meet the Moon.

"The essential tasks of a student of psychoanalysis is to discover and develop their own analytic voice. In this new work by Jane Hall, new students and seasoned analysts alike will find both a sophisticated and accomplished guide, as well as an eager companion in learning. Drawing from decades of experience as both patient and analyst, Jane engages and confronts longstanding psychoanalytic perspectives and traditions, and then, infuses them with newly emerging research. Her Jazzinspired "riffs" on core analytic ideas offer the reader important and fresh viewpoints, but they also invite and model for the reader how to join in with "riffs" of their own. Accessible and challenging, this book is as much about the necessity of the evolution of psychoanalysis, as it is a reflection upon a life's work that is still in progress."
-AIMEE RADOM, PHD, Clinical Psychologist
"Jane Hall has done something special in this book. In an engaging and entertaining way she tells the inside story of both how a psychoanalyst thinks and what it's like to be the therapist in a psychoanalytic treatment. She is able to blend professional language, which she always
explains, with regular commonsense language in a way rarely seen. It results in a book that is richly annotated with the thoughts of many of our best psychoanalysts and is never dumbed down, but is never abstruse. I highly recommend it."
-LANCE DODES, MD, President of Psychoanalysis NOW; the New Center faculty.

"This is not a 'how to' book, but a wonderful model of 'how to be' as a healer and a person.Every reader will find something of value in the conversation that is The ower of Connection."
-RICHARD ALMOND, MD, faculty, Stanford Medicine