Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler

by Cooper,Arnold M.

• ISBN13: 9780415205498
• ISBN10: 0415205492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-05-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Joseph Sandler was one of the most creative and influential figures in psychoanalysis throughout the world during the latter part of the twentieth century, contributing to changing views on both psychoanalytic theory and technique. He was also a bridging force in psychoanalysis, helping to close the gap between American ego psychologists and British Kleinian and object relations theorists.Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandlerprovides a comprehensive and accessible overview of Sandler's contribution to the development of the field. The contributors trace the development of the main themes and achievements of Sandler's work, in particular his focus on combining psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Joseph Sandler's intellectual contributions to theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis	1	(29)
Peter Fonagy
Arnold M. Cooper
A half-century perspective on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: the historical context of Joseph Sandler's contributions	30	(21)
Robert S. Wallerstein
Wish fulfilment and the mastery of trauma	51	(8)
Owen Renik
Between the background of safety and the background of the uncanny in the context of social violence	59	(16)
Yolanda Gampel
Some reflections on the concept of enactment	75	(8)
Roy Schafer
Importance of narcissistic cathexes in the earliest aspects of the object relationship	83	(13)
Serge Lebovici
What is an object? The role of perception	96	(9)
Hanna Segal
The representational world and the linguistic idiom	105	(13)
Theodore Shapiro
Internal objects: theoretical perimeter and clinical contour	118	(17)
Max Hernandez
Moises Lemlij
Unconscious fantasy as an experience of action	135	(15)
Daniel Widlocher
Gender-dichotomous fantasies: their relationships to the inner and outer worlds	150	(21)
Ethel Spector Person
Acute and chronic countertransference reactions	171	(16)
Otto F. Kernberg
Psychoanalysts' theories	187	(14)
Robert Michels
Psychoanalytic heuristics	201	(16)
Jorge Canestri
The analyst's vocabulary	217	(13)
Horst Kachele
Erhard Mergenthaler
Michael Holzer
Index	230