Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach

by Stolorow; Robert D.

• ISBN13: 9780881633306
• ISBN10: 0881633305
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective. In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical phenomena, including transference and resistance, conflict formation, therapeutic action, affective and self development, and borderline and psychotic states. As a consequence, the authors demonstrate that an intersubjective approach greatly facilitates empathic access to the patient's subjective world and, in the same measure, greatly enhances the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Treatment is another step in the ongoing development of intersubjectivity theory, as born out in Structures of Subjectivity (1984), Contexts of Being (1992), and Working Intersubjectively (1997), all published by the Analytic Press

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Principles of Psychoanalytic Exploration	1	(14)
Reflections on Self Psychology	15	(13)
Transference -- The Organization of Experience	28	(19)
Bonds That Shackle, Ties That Free	47	(19)
Affects and Selfobjects	66	(22)
Developmental Failure and Psychic Conflict	88	(12)
Thoughts on Psychoanalytic Cure	100	(6)
Treatment of Borderline States	106	(26)
Treatment of Psychotic States	132	(41)
References	173	(8)
Author Index	181	(2)
Subject Index	183