Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis

by Skolnick; Neil J.

• ISBN13: 9780881631074
• ISBN10: 0881631078
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xxiii
True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity	p. 1
Self Psychology: The Self and Its Vicissitudes Within a Relational Matrix	p. 21
Recognition and Destruction: An Outline of Intersubjectivity	p. 43
A Dyadic Systems View of Communication	p. 61
The Contribution of Mother-Infant Mutual Influence to the Origins of Self- and Object Representations	p. 83
Dialogues as Transitional Space: A Rapprochement of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psycholinguistics	p. 119
Mutative Factors in Child Psychoanalysis: A Comparison of Diverse Relational Perspectives	p. 147
Relational Perspectives on Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy	p. 175
Attachment Research: An Approach to a Developmental Relational Perspective	p. 195
Secrets in Clinical Work: A Relational Point of View	p. 217
Money Matters in Psychoanalysis	p. 239
On the Occurrence of the Isakower Phenomenon in a Schizoid Patient	p. 257
Eros Reclaimed: Recovering Freud's Relational Theory	p. 281
Some Historical Aspects of Contemporary Pluralistic Psychoanalysis	p. 313
Index	p. 333
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