Progress in Self Psychology, V. 16: How Responsive Should We Be?

by Goldberg; Arnold I.

• ISBN13: 9780881633276
• ISBN10: 0881633275
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134889211
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Volume 16 of Progress in Self Psychology, How Responsive Should We Be, illuminates the continuing tension between Kohut's emphasis on the patient's subjective experience and the post-Kohutian intersubjectivists' concern with the therapist's own subjectivity by focusing on issues of therapeutic posture and degree of therapist activity. Teicholz provides an integrative context for examining this tension by discussing affect as the common denominator underlying the analyst's empathy, subjectivity, and authenticity. Responses to the tension encompass the stance of intersubjective contextualism, advocacy of "active responsiveness," and emphasis on the thorough-going bidirectionality of the analytic endeavor. Balancing these perspectives are a reprise on Kohut's concept of prolonged empathic immersion and a recasting of the issue of closeness and distance in the analytic relationship in terms of analysis of "the tie to the negative selfobject." Additional clinical contributions examine severe bulimia and suicidal rage as attempts at self-state regulation and address the self-reparative functions that inhere in the act of dreaming. Like previous volumes in the series, volume 16 demonstrates the applicability of self psychology to nonanalytic treatment modalities and clinical populations. Here, self psychology is brought to bear on psychotherapy with placed children, on work with adults with nonverbal learning disabilities, and on brief therapy. Rector's examination of twinship and religious experience, Hagman's elucidation of the creative process, and Siegel and Topel's experiment with supervision via the internet exemplify the ever-expanding explanatory range of self-psychological insights.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Introduction	xiii
Jill R. Gardner
From The Kohut Archives	1	(16)
Charles B. Strozier
I THEORETICAL
Forms of Relatedness: Self-Preservation and the Schizoid Continuum	17	(16)
Mark J. Gehrie
The Analyst's Empathy, Subjectivity, and Authenticity: Affect as the Common Denominator	33	(22)
Judith Guss Teicholz
The Active Exploratory and Assertive Self as Manifested in Dreams	55	(12)
James M. Fisch
The Development of the Dyad: A Bidirectional Revisioning of Some Self Psychological Concepts	67	(20)
Lynn Preston
Ellen Shumsky
II CLINICAL
The Need for Efficacy in the Treatment of Suicidal Patients: Transference and Countertransference Issues	87	(16)
Hans-Peter Hartmann
Wolfgang E. Milch
eSupervision: Something New Under the Sun	103	(38)
Allen M. Siegel
Eva-Maria Topel
Bulimia as Metaphor: Twinship and Play in the Treatment of the Difficult Patient	141	(14)
James E. Gorney
Reflections on Selfobject Transferences and a Continuum of Responsiveness	155	(20)
Louisa R. Livingston
Easy Listening, Prolonged Empathic Immersion, and the Selfobject Needs of the Analyst	175	(24)
Jeffrey J. Mermelstein
Dimensions of Experience in Relationship Seeking	199	(20)
Mary E. Connors
III APPLIED
Using Self Psychology in Brief Psychotherapy	219	(30)
Jill R. Gardner
Discussion of Jill Gardner's ``Using Self Psychology in Brief Psychotherapy''	249	(8)
Linda A. Chernus
Developmental Aspects of the Twinship Selfobject Need and Religious Experience	257	(20)
Lallene J. Rector
The Creative Process	277	(22)
George Hagman
Restoration of the Past: A Guide to Therapy With Placed Children	299	(12)
Marilyn W. Silin
A Disorder of the Self in an Adult With a Nonverbal Learning Disability	311	(28)
Joseph Palombo
IV CRITIQUES
Secret Conversations With My Father: The Psychological Dimension of Theoretical Discourse	339	(20)
Maxwell S. Sucharov
Surviving the Death of Oedipus: Tips for Self Psychologists	359	(26)
Doris Brothers
Ellen Lewinberg
Author Index	385	(6)
Subject Index	391