Progress in Self Psychology, V. 16: How Responsive Should We Be?

ISBN-13: 9781138009783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 408 str.

Arnold I. Goldberg;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Volume 16 of Progress in Self Psychology, How Responsive Should We Be, illuminates the continuing tension between Kohut's emphasis on the patient's subjective experience and the post-Kohutian intersubjectivists' concern with the therapist's own subjectivity by focusing on issues of therapeutic posture and degree of therapist activity. Teicholz provides an integrative context for examining this tension by discussing affect as the common denominator underlying the analyst's empathy, subjectivity, and authenticity. Responses to the tension encompass the stance of intersubjective contextualism, advocacy of active responsiveness, and emphasis on the thorough-going bidirectionality of the analytic endeavor. Balancing these perspectives are a reprise on Kohut's concept of prolonged empathic immersion and a recasting of the issue of closeness and distance in the analytic relationship in terms of analysis of the tie to the negative selfobject. Additional clinical contributions examine severe bulimia and suicidal rage as attempts at self-state regulation and address the self-reparative functions that inhere in the act of dreaming.Like previous volumes in the series, volume 16 demonstrates the applicability of self psychology to nonanalytic treatment modalities and clinical populations. Here, self psychology is brought to bear on psychotherapy with placed children, on work with adults with nonverbal learning disabilities, and on brief therapy. Rector's examination of twinship and religious experience, Hagman's elucidation of the creative process, and Siegel and Topel's experiment with supervision via the internet exemplify the ever-expanding explanatory range of self-psychological insights.

Spis treści

Strozier, From the Kohut Archives. Part I: Theoretical. Gehrie, Forms of Relatedness: Self Preservation and the Schizoid Continuum. Teicholz, The Analyst's Empathy, Subjectivity and Authenticity: Affect as the Common Denominator. Fisch, The Active Exploratory and Assertive Self as Manifested in Dreams. Preston, Shumsky, The Development of the Dyad: A Bidrectional Revisioning of Some. Part II: Clinical. Hartmann, Milch, The Need for Efficacy in the Treatment of Suicidal Patients. Siegel, Topel, eSupervision: Something New Under the Sun. Gorney, Bulimia as Metaphor: Twinship and Play in the Treatment of the Difficult Patient. Livingston, Reflections on Selfobject Transferences and a Continuum of Responsiveness. Mermelstein, Easy Listening, Prolonged Empathic Immersion, and the Selfobject Needs of the Analyst. Connors, Dimensions of Experience in Relationship Seeking. Part III: Applied. Gardner, Using Self Psychology in Brief Psychotherapy. Chernus, Discussion of Jill Gardner's Paper. Rector, Developmental Aspects of the Twinship Selfobject Need and Religious Experience. Hagman, The Creative Process. Silin, Restoration of the Past: A Guide to Therapy With Placed Children. Palombo, A Disorder of the Self in an Adult with a Nonverbal Learning Disability. Part IV: Critiques. Sucharov, Secret Conversations with My Father: The Psychological Dimension of Theoretical Discourse. Brothers, Lewinberg, Surviving the Death of Oedipus: Tips for Self Psychologists.

O autorze

Arnold Goldberg, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejan Harris, M.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College in Chicago, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago. He is the author of a number of books, including Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis (TAP, 1999) and Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior (TAP, 2000).