Full Description
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s is the second collection of selected classic articles of the modern era by psychoanalysts identified with the interpersonal perspective. The first, The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s presented articles by second and third generation interpersonalists. This book contains those written by the third and fourth generation of interpersonal psychoanalysts.
The articles selected by the Editors for this second book extend the theme of transference and countertransference that was the throughline of the first book, lending even greater significance in clinical practice to the analyst's subjectivity and its relation to the patient's mind. One chapter after another in this book reveal ways that the analyst's experience can lead to a greater appreciation of the patient's unconscious experience. It is because of papers such as these that interpersonal psychoanalysis has been described as the origin, at least in North America, of the contemporary clinical interest in psychoanalytic subjectivity. As in the first, the articles in this second book include classic contributions from Bromberg, Greenberg, Hirsch, Mitchell, Levenson, Stern, and Wolstein; these writers are joined here by Blechner, Bonovitz, Buechler, Fiscalini, Held-Weiss, Kuriloff, and White.
North American psychoanalysis has long been deeply influenced and substantially changed by clinical and theoretical perspectives first introduced by interpersonal psychoanalysis. Yet even today, despite its origin in the 1930s, many otherwise well-read psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are not well informed about the field. Along with its companion work, this book provides a superb starting point for those who are not as familiar with interpersonal psychoanalysis as they might be. For those who already know the literature, the book will be useful in placing a selection of classic interpersonal articles and their writers in key historical context.
Contents
Introduction: Distinguishing features of the interpersonal perspective in psychoanalysis by Irwin Hirsch.
Prologue to Chapter 1.
1. Roberta Held-Weiss (1985). In praise of actuality.
Prologue to Chapter 2.
2. Jay R. Greenberg (1986). Theoretical models and the analyst's neutrality.
Prologue to Chapter 3.
3. Stephen A. Mitchell (1991). Contemporary perspectives on self: Toward an
integration.
Prologue to Chapter 4.
4. Edgar A. Levenson (1993). Shoot the messenger—Interpersonal aspects of the
analyst's interpretations.
Prologue to Chapter 5.
5. Irwin Hirsch (1996). Observing-participation, mutual enactment, and the new
classical models.
Prologue to Chapter 6.
6. Sandra Buechler (1999). Searching for a passionate neutrality.
Prologue to Chapter 7.
7. Kathleen Pogue White (2002). Surviving hating and being hated.
Prologue to Chapter 8.
8. Mark J. Blechner (2005). The Gay Harry Stack Sullivan.
Prologue to Chapter 9.
9. John Fiscalini (2006). Coparticipant inquiry: Analysis as personal encounter.
Prologue to Chapter 10.
10. Christopher Bonovitz (2009). Looking back, looking forward: A reexamination
of Benjamin Wolstein's interlock and the emergence of intersubjectivity.
Prologue to Chapter 11.
11. Emily A. Kuriloff (2010). The Holocaust and psychoanalytic theory and praxis.
Prologue to Chapter 12.
12. Philip M. Bromberg (2012). Stumbling along and hanging in: If this be
technique, make the most of it.
Prologue to Chapter 13.
13. Donnel B. Stern (2012). Witnessing across time: Accessing the present from the
past and the past from the present.
