ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |22 pages

Self Psychology

The Self and Its Vicissitudes Within a Relational Matrix

chapter |18 pages

Recognition and Destruction

An Outline of Intersubjectivity

chapter |27 pages

Dialogues as Transitional Space

A Rapprochement of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psycholinguistics

chapter |27 pages

Mutative Factors in Child Psychoanalysis

A Comparison of Diverse Relational Perspectives

chapter |22 pages

Attachment Research

An Approach to a Developmental Relational Perspective

chapter |22 pages

Secrets in Clinical Work

A Relational Point of View

chapter |32 pages

Eros Reclaimed

Recovering Freud's Relational Theory