Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis

by Neil J. Skolnick, Susan C. Warshaw

Overview

A watershed in the articulation of the relational psychoanalytic paradigm, this volume offers a rich overview of issues currently being addressed by clinicians and theoreticians writing from a variety of complementary relational viewpoints. Chapter topics cover the roots of the relational orientation in early psychoanalytic thinking, the impact of relational consideration on developmental theory, relational conceptions of "self" and "other," and clinical applications of relational perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317737230
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/28/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Neil J. Skolnick, Susan C. Warshaw

Table of Contents

Foreword - Emmanuel Ghent
Introduction - Neil J. Skolnick and Susan C. Warshaw
True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity - Stephen A. Mitchell
Self Psychology: The Self and Its Vicissitudes Within a Relational Matrix - James L. Fosshage
Recognition and Destructoin: An Outline of Intersubjectivity - Jessica Benjamin
A Dyadic Systems View of Communication - Beatrice Beebe, Joseph Jaffe, and Frank M. Lachmann
The Contribution of Mother-Infant Mutual Influence in the Origins of Self- and Objection Representations - Beatrice Beebe and Frank M. Lachmann 
Dialogues as Transitional Space: A Rapprochement of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psycholinguistics - Adrienne Harris
Mutative Factors in Child Psychoanalysis: A Comparison of Diverse Relational Perspectives - Susan C. Warshaw
Relational Perspectives on Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Neil Altman
Attachment Research: An Approach to a Developmental Relational Perspective - Doris K. Silverman
Secrets in Clinical Work: A Relational Point of View - Neil J. Skolnick and Jody Messler Davies
Money Matters in Psychoanalysis - Lewis Aron and Irwin Hirsch
On the Occurrence of the Isakower Phenomenon in a Schizoid Patient - Philip M. Bromber
Eros Reclaimed: Recovering Freud's Relational Theory - Steven Reisner
Some Historical Aspects of Contemporary Pluralistic Psychoanalysis - Benjamin Wolstein