< P> Insight and "Change."& nbsp; The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change them attests, has dogged psychoanalysis for a century.& nbsp; Building on the integrative object relations model set for in < i> Transcending the Self< /i> (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" in order to elaborate a fresh clinical approach for transforming insight into new ways of being and relating.& nbsp; For Summers,...

< P> Despite the popularity of object relations theories, these theories are often abstract, with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear.& nbsp; Now, in < EM> Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy< /EM> , & nbsp; Summers answers the need for an integrative object relations model that can be understood and applied by the clinician in the daily conduct of psychoanalytic therapy.< BR> & nbsp; < BR> Drawing on recent infancy research, developmental psychology, and the works of major...

Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of objectification, quantification, and materialism. The Psychoanalytic Vision situates psychoanalysis as a voice of the rebel, affirming the importance of the subjective in contrast to the culture of objectification. Founded on phenomenological philosophy from which it derives its unique epistemology and...