Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America
Leading Analysts Present Their Work
Published on 10. June 2006
Book
Hardback
799 pages
978-1-58562-232-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a unique and superb gateway to current
psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts-leaders
in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession-have each
presented what they consider to be their most significant contribution to
the field. No mere anthology, these are the key writings that underlie
current discussions of psychoanalytic theory and technique.
The
chapters cover contemporary ideas of intersubjectivity, object relations
theory, self psychology, relational psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, clinical
technique, changing concepts of unconscious, empirical research, infant
observation, gender and sexuality, and more. While the differences in point
of view are profound, there is also a striking coherence on some core
issues. Each of the contributions features an introduction by the volume
editor and a note by the author explaining the rationale for its selection.
The brilliant introduction by Peter Fonagy provides an overview and places
each author in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis.
A list of
the authors may convey the astonishing breadth of this volume:
Brenner,
Bromberg, Busch, Chodorow, Cooper, Emde, Friedman, Gabbard, Goldberg,
Greenberg, Grossman, Hoffman, Jacobs, Kantrowitz, Kernberg, Levenson,
Luborsky, Michels, Ogden, Ornstein, Person, Pine, Renik, Schafer, Schwaber,
Shapiro, Smith, Stern, Stolorow, Wallerstein
This is a "best of the
best" volume-cutting-edge writing, highly accessible and studded with vivid
clinical illustrations. Anyone wishing to acquire a comprehensive,
authoritative, readily accessible-even entertaining-guide to American
psychoanalytic thinking will find their goal fulfilled in this monumental
collection.
psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts-leaders
in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession-have each
presented what they consider to be their most significant contribution to
the field. No mere anthology, these are the key writings that underlie
current discussions of psychoanalytic theory and technique.
The
chapters cover contemporary ideas of intersubjectivity, object relations
theory, self psychology, relational psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, clinical
technique, changing concepts of unconscious, empirical research, infant
observation, gender and sexuality, and more. While the differences in point
of view are profound, there is also a striking coherence on some core
issues. Each of the contributions features an introduction by the volume
editor and a note by the author explaining the rationale for its selection.
The brilliant introduction by Peter Fonagy provides an overview and places
each author in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis.
A list of
the authors may convey the astonishing breadth of this volume:
Brenner,
Bromberg, Busch, Chodorow, Cooper, Emde, Friedman, Gabbard, Goldberg,
Greenberg, Grossman, Hoffman, Jacobs, Kantrowitz, Kernberg, Levenson,
Luborsky, Michels, Ogden, Ornstein, Person, Pine, Renik, Schafer, Schwaber,
Shapiro, Smith, Stern, Stolorow, Wallerstein
This is a "best of the
best" volume-cutting-edge writing, highly accessible and studded with vivid
clinical illustrations. Anyone wishing to acquire a comprehensive,
authoritative, readily accessible-even entertaining-guide to American
psychoanalytic thinking will find their goal fulfilled in this monumental
collection.
Reviews / Votes
The chapters encompass the broadly ranging currents ofcontemporary analytic thinking while serving the useful purpose of drawing
these seminal papers together under a single cover. Students of
psychoanalytic theory and practice will appreciate this collection as a
useful compendium of current mainline perspectives in psychoanalysis. * Bulletin of Menninger Clinic * [Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America] is an
excellent and much needed book. With the advent of self psychology and ego
psychology's loss of dominance, there has been an explosion of new theories
and ideas in the mainstream. This book does a wonderful job of bringing
together all of these, from intersubjectivity to infant psychology, in one
easily accessible format. I would highly recommend this to anyone in the
field of psychoanalysis or psychology. * Doody's Book Review Service *
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Language
English
Place of publication
VA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Illustrations
3 Tables, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1166 gr
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978-1-58562-232-0 (9781585622320)
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Arnold M. Cooper, M.D., is Stephen P. Tobin and Dr.
Arnold M. Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at
Weill Cornell Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New
York City.
Arnold M. Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at
Weill Cornell Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New
York City.
Content
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Walking Among
Giants
Chapter 1. Conflict, compromise formation and structural
theory
Chapter 2. Treating patients with symptoms-and symptoms with
patience: reflections on shame, dissociation, and eating
disorders
Chapter 3. "In the neighborhood": aspects of a good
interpretation and a "developmental lag" in ego psychology
Chapter 4.
Heterosexuality as a compromise formation: reflections on the psychoanalytic
theory of sexual development
Chapter 5. The narcissistic-masochistic
character
Chapter 6. Mobilizing fundamental modes of development:
empathic availability and therapeutic action
Chapter 7. Ferrum, ignis,
and medicina: return to the crucible
Chapter 8. Miscarriages of
psychoanalytic treatment with suicidal patients
Chapter 9. Between
empathy and judgment
Chapter 10. Conflict in the middle
voice
Chapter 11. The self as fantasy: fantasy as theory
Chapter 12.
Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process
Chapter 13. On
misreading and misleading patients: some reflections on communications,
miscommunications, and countertransference enactments
Chapter 14. The
external observer and the lens of the patient-analyst match
Chapter 15.
Recent developments in the technical approaches of English-language
psychoanalytic schools
Chapter 16. The pursuit of the particular: on the
psychoanalytic inquiry
Chapter 17. A relationship pattern measure: the
Core Conflictual Relationship Theme
Chapter 18. Psychoanalysts'
theories
Chapter 19. The analytic third: implications for psychoanalytic
theory and technique
Chapter 20. Chronic rage from underground:
reflections on its structure and treatment
Chapter 21. Knowledge and
authority: the godfather fantasy
Chapter 22. The four psychologies of
psychoanalysis and their place in clinical work
Chapter 23. Playing
one's cards face up in analysis: an approach to the problem of
self-disclosure
Chapter 24. Narration in the psychoanalytic dialogue:
psychoanalytic theories as narratives
Chapter 25. The struggle to
listen: continuing reflections, lingering paradoxes, and some thoughts on
recovery of memory
Chapter 26. On reminiscences
Chapter 27.
Countertransference, conflictual listening, and the analytic object
relationship
Chapter 28. Some implications of infant observations for
psychoanalysis
Chapter 29. World horizons: a post-Cartesian alternative
to the Freudian unconscious
Chapter 30. One psychoanalysis or
many?
Index
Preface
Introduction: Walking Among
Giants
Chapter 1. Conflict, compromise formation and structural
theory
Chapter 2. Treating patients with symptoms-and symptoms with
patience: reflections on shame, dissociation, and eating
disorders
Chapter 3. "In the neighborhood": aspects of a good
interpretation and a "developmental lag" in ego psychology
Chapter 4.
Heterosexuality as a compromise formation: reflections on the psychoanalytic
theory of sexual development
Chapter 5. The narcissistic-masochistic
character
Chapter 6. Mobilizing fundamental modes of development:
empathic availability and therapeutic action
Chapter 7. Ferrum, ignis,
and medicina: return to the crucible
Chapter 8. Miscarriages of
psychoanalytic treatment with suicidal patients
Chapter 9. Between
empathy and judgment
Chapter 10. Conflict in the middle
voice
Chapter 11. The self as fantasy: fantasy as theory
Chapter 12.
Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process
Chapter 13. On
misreading and misleading patients: some reflections on communications,
miscommunications, and countertransference enactments
Chapter 14. The
external observer and the lens of the patient-analyst match
Chapter 15.
Recent developments in the technical approaches of English-language
psychoanalytic schools
Chapter 16. The pursuit of the particular: on the
psychoanalytic inquiry
Chapter 17. A relationship pattern measure: the
Core Conflictual Relationship Theme
Chapter 18. Psychoanalysts'
theories
Chapter 19. The analytic third: implications for psychoanalytic
theory and technique
Chapter 20. Chronic rage from underground:
reflections on its structure and treatment
Chapter 21. Knowledge and
authority: the godfather fantasy
Chapter 22. The four psychologies of
psychoanalysis and their place in clinical work
Chapter 23. Playing
one's cards face up in analysis: an approach to the problem of
self-disclosure
Chapter 24. Narration in the psychoanalytic dialogue:
psychoanalytic theories as narratives
Chapter 25. The struggle to
listen: continuing reflections, lingering paradoxes, and some thoughts on
recovery of memory
Chapter 26. On reminiscences
Chapter 27.
Countertransference, conflictual listening, and the analytic object
relationship
Chapter 28. Some implications of infant observations for
psychoanalysis
Chapter 29. World horizons: a post-Cartesian alternative
to the Freudian unconscious
Chapter 30. One psychoanalysis or
many?
Index