Printed in Color: All Illustrations & Paintings are Printed in ColorFranco Scabbiolo, drawing on his analytic experience with Donald Meltzer and 35 years of working with autistic children and adults, invites readers into a vision of the psycho-aestheticanalytic-creative process in Feeling the Feelings of the Feeling. Scabbiolo intertwines the wisdom of psychoanalytic pioneers like Freud, Klein, Bion, and Meltzer—particualrly Meltzer’s ideas of the claustrum and aesthetic conflict—with his own feelings and concepts, such as misfeelings, unfeelings, aesthetic contrast, filmmaker of dreams, abandonment-abandoning, agoraclaustrophobia, functional minding, the aesthetic reason to create, and more.

This work may be of interest not only to psychoanalysts and art therapists but also to artists. Readers are invited to unlearn from experience as they encounter feeling the feelings of the feeling.

Contents:IntroductionEvent -3: The Contribution of Bion and Meltzer to the Understanding of Children with Autism and Borderline AdultsEvent -2: The Emotional Process and the Emotional Internal ObjectEvent -1: Prisons of the Mind: Claustrophobic WorldsEvent 0: Aesthetics In Psychoanalytic TherapyEvent 1: A Psycho-Aesthetic Analytical Compass and Parallel WorldsInterlude Interview: The Worlds of Abandonment and Delusion—Scabbiolo Interviews FrancoEvent 2: The Object and the Feelings of Abandonment-AbandoningInterlude: A Girl Is Abandoned: The Start of a Series by Sheri BrassellEvent 3: Feeling the Feelings of the FeelingEvent 4: Dream FeelingsInterlude: The Art of Dream FeelingsEvent 5: Awakening the Filmmaker of DreamsInterlude: Meltzer’s Aesthetic Vision of PsychoanalysisEvent 6: The Psycho-aesthetic Process: A Psycho-Aesthetic-Analytic-Creative ProcessEvent 7: Notes on Functional Minding and the Disquiet and Beauty of the Aesthetic Reason to Create: Future Directions on the Revolution of Human Sensibility and the Becoming of New FeelingsEvent 8: Interview. .