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Psychotherapy can only benefit through a meeting with the Deleuzian and post-Deleuzian thinking. I approached the insightful articles of this issue 'plugging in' the concept of attention while facilitating at the same time the growth of a rhizomatic space between the notions and the ideas discussed by the authors and the 'plugged in' concept. In order to facilitate the growth of this rhizomatic space, I adopt more the style of a conversation instead of a discussion, introducing through elliptical references links between the notions of immanence, body without organs, becoming, event, multiplicities, intensities, interembodied synchronies, expressivity, vulnerability, trust and trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay pays tribute to the various contributors to the 'Deleuze and Psychotherapy special issue' in their attempts to bring clarity with regard to the multiplicities of concepts and themes saturating the initiatives of both the aforementioned Deleuze and his co-conspirator Felix Guattari. These converge on the desire to disperse any ideas of identity and our propensity to allow a submission to the overarching overcoding of our lives. The difficulties emerge, not because of any lack of coherence in their presentations but rather through becoming entangled in a somewhat starry-eyed approach, being content to merely assert and then move on. Possibly a more enticing possibility would have been to more fully interrogate the revolutionary insistencies so enthusiastically embraced. On occasions the authors valiantly attempt to make something of their own of these complexities and the specific ideas involved, only to give rise to some mild concern as to whether they have entirely grasped quite what is at stake. Nevertheless theirs is always never less than a serious involvement with the Deleuzian projects and serves as yet another welcome foray into the zones of intensity that such thinking inaugurates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The starting point for this work is a general aim to explore the conceptual resonances between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and the Eastern thought. This paper develops two series of figures from the East that appear in A Thousand Plateaus and brings out their connection with various Deleuzian-Guattarian themes. The first series includes some games and martial arts used by the authors as examples for the concepts "smooth space" and "war machine". The second series includes some Taoist sexual practices as one of many cases for the free circulation of desire within a body without organs. The emphasis is laid on clarifying the role these figures from the East play in A Thousand Plateaus, as well as on unveiling some sources the authors usually leave hidden behind. Finally, I figure out the background (point of resonance) against which the Eastern thought and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy weave their 'disturbing affinities'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]