Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However, there is confusion and controversy about what constitutes 'best.' Critical differences between these theories are about inferences concerning the disguised meaning of what patients tell us. There can be no meaning without context, but we have never developed a consensus about how we establish context (contextualization). This book offers a number of detailed clinical examples to illustrate how confusion about contextualization serves as the source of some of our most important disagreements.
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Psychoanalytic Disagreements in Context
Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However, there is confusion and controversy about what constitutes 'best.' Critical differences between these theories are about inferences concerning the disguised meaning of what patients tell us. There can be no meaning without context, but we have never developed a consensus about how we establish context (contextualization). This book offers a number of detailed clinical examples to illustrate how confusion about contextualization serves as the source of some of our most important disagreements.
Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However, there is confusion and controversy about what constitutes 'best.' Critical differences between these theories are about inferences concerning the disguised meaning of what patients tell us. There can be no meaning without context, but we have never developed a consensus about how we establish context (contextualization). This book offers a number of detailed clinical examples to illustrate how confusion about contextualization serves as the source of some of our most important disagreements.
Dale Boesky is the past editor-in-chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He is a training and supervising analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
Table of Contents
Part 1 AcknowledgementsPart 2 PrefaceChapter 3 IntroductionPart 4 Clinical ExamplesChapter 5 Psychoanalytic Controversies Contextualized: A Model of Clinical DisputesChapter 6 Comparative Psychoanalysis: What Should We Compare?Chapter 7 Memory Recovery as Viewed in One-Person Compared with Two-Person Theoretical ModelsChapter 8 Free Associations: Which Ones Count?Part 9 Associations, Contextualization and HermeneuticsChapter 10 Another Kind of Incompleteness: Associations and InterpretationChapter 11 Contextualizing CriteriaChapter 12 Contextualization and Hermeneutics