ABSTRACT
This book brings together an engaging study, using Emmanuel Ghent’s collected papers, of theoretical and personal origins of the relational turn in psychoanalysis. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas have been hugely influential. However, he published sparingly and his papers are scattered across a range of sources. In this book, his key writings are reproduced, along with analyses and critiques by major contemporary psychoanalytic figures such as Adam Phillips, Jessica Benjamin, Seth Warren, Adrienne Harris and Barry Magrid.
This book provides a thorough examination of the key tenets of Ghent’s thinking and illustrates the continued importance of his theoretical and clinical work for the next generation of psychoanalysts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |183 pages
Core papers and commentaries
chapter |6 pages
Surrender and self-discovery
chapter |13 pages
Interaction in the psychoanalytic situation 1
chapter |41 pages
Wish, need, drive
part |35 pages
Early writings
part |11 pages
In Ghent’s words
chapter |5 pages
On Relational Psychoanalysis
part |22 pages
Reminiscences