Freud famously described psychoanalysis, along with education and government, as an impossible profession. Nonetheless, over the past century psychoanalysis has gone on to establish training institutes, professional societies, accreditation procedures, and models of education, thus bringing into uneasy alliance all three impossible pursuits. In Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education, Emmanuel Berman turns his attention to the current status and future prospects of this daunting project. Berman is ideally suited to tackle the impossibility of psychoanalytic...
Freud famously described psychoanalysis, along with education and government, as an impossible profession. Nonetheless, over the past century psychoan...
In Minding Spirituality, Randall Sorenson, a clinical psychoanalyst, "invites us to take an interest in our patients' spirituality that is respectful but not diffident, curious but not reductionistic, welcoming but not indoctrinating." Out of this invitation emerges a fascinating and broadening investigation of how contemporary psychoanalysis can "mind" spirituality in the threefold sense of being bothered by it, of attending to it, and of cultivating it. Both the questions Sorenson asks, and the answers he begins to formulate, reflect progressive changes in the psychoanalytic...
In Minding Spirituality, Randall Sorenson, a clinical psychoanalyst, "invites us to take an interest in our patients' spirituality that is re...
Our view of massive trauma has been indelibly shaped by the events of September 11, 2001. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars, researchers and clinicians, focuses on the World Trade Center attack and its psychological consequences and thereby deepens our understanding of trauma in psychopathology, interpersonal psychobiology, epidemiology and social policy - the contributors pay particular attention to the fundamental relationship of human bonds and trauma. coming together in complementary ways that sustain a key finding: that trauma must be understood in relation and...
Our view of massive trauma has been indelibly shaped by the events of September 11, 2001. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars, researc...
Conversing with Uncertainty is a unique chronicle of why therapists must use theory while resisting the allure of theory, maintaining a double vision that allows them to appropriate theory only to break it open to enlarge the interactive and interpretive possibilities of therapy. But McCleary offers far more than a vivid experiential rendering of this insight. She argues persuasively, here in conversation with the writings of Irwin Hoffman and Lawrence Friedman, that a narrative case study - such as her case study of Kay - offers a unique window to comprehending the type of...
Conversing with Uncertainty is a unique chronicle of why therapists must use theory while resisting the allure of theory, maintaining a do...
In an interdisciplinary analysis at once scholarly and passionate, Grand explores the ways in which families and cultures transform victims of malignant trauma into perpetrators of these very traumas on others. Through intensive case studies, she d
In an interdisciplinary analysis at once scholarly and passionate, Grand explores the ways in which families and cultures transform victims of maligna...
Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Charles Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of developmentally significant feeling states. Analytic treatment fosters the patient's capacity to keep alive in consciousness, and hence reflect on, these previously warded-off affective states; it thereby provides a second chance to achieve competence in using feeling states to understand the...
Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Charles Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as...
< P> The "relational turn" has transformed the field of psychoanalysis, with an impact that cuts across different schools of thought and clinical modalities. In the six years following publication of Volume 1, < i> Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition, < /i> relational theorizing has continued to develop, expand, and challenge the parameters of clinical discourse. It has been a period of loss, with the passing of Stephen A. Mitchell and Emmanuel Ghent, but also a period of great promise, marked by the burgeoning publication of relational books and journals...
< P> The "relational turn" has transformed the field of psychoanalysis, with an impact that cuts across different schools of thought and clinical moda...
In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized, to the very individuals whom this theory and practice often overlooked. In doing so, he brought together psychoanalytic and social theory, and examined how divisions of race, class and culture reflect and influence splits in the developing self, more often than not leading to a negative self image of the "other" in an increasingly polarized society.
Much like the...
In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy conf...
The "Director" controls Ms. Bâs life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The "Director" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone.
The story of Ms. Bâs analysis is one of many vivid illustrations presented in this collection of papers by...
The "Director" controls Ms. Bâs life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including ...
At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently affected his theory: Psychoanalysis, a healing science, could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that war inherently breeds, but its principles could just as easily serve the enemy's desires to inculcate its own brand of "truth."
Even a...
At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of tha...
