ABSTRACT

Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris, and comprised of the contributions of many of the leading voices in the relational world, Volume 5 carries on the legacy of this rich and diversified psychoanalytic approach by taking a fresh look at the progress in therapeutic process. Included here are chapters on transference and countertransference, engagement, dissociation and self-states, analytic impasses, privacy and disclosure, enactments, improvisation, development, and more. Thoughtful, capacious, and integrative, this new volume places the leading edge of relational thought close at hand, and pushes the boundaries of the relational turn that much closer to the horizon.

Contributors: Lewis Aron, Anthony Bass, Beatrice Beebe, Philip Bromberg, Steven Cooper, Jody Messler Davies, Darlene Ehrenberg, Dianne Elise, Glen Gabbard, Adrienne Harris, Irwin Hoffman, Steven Knoblauch, Thomas Ogden, Spyros Orfanos, Stuart Pizer, Philip Ringstrom, Jill Salberg, Stephen Seligman, Joyce Slochower, Donnel Stern, Paul Wachtel.

chapter 2|25 pages

At Death's Door

Therapists and Patients as Agents *

chapter 5|45 pages

Faces in Relation

A Case Study *

chapter 6|20 pages

Impasse Recollected in Tranquility

Love, Dissociation, and Discipline in the Analytic Process *

chapter 8|22 pages

Body Rhythms and the Unconscious

Expanding Clinical Attention With the Polyrhythmic Weave *

chapter 9|35 pages

Analytic Impasse and the Third

Clinical Implications of Intersubjectivity Theory *

chapter 11|22 pages

The Black Man and the Mermaid

Desire and Disruption in the Analytic Relationship *

chapter 13|21 pages

“Grown-Up” Words

An Interpersonal-Relational Perspective on Unconscious Fantasy *

chapter 14|21 pages

Leaning Into Termination

Finding a Good-Enough Ending *

chapter 15|27 pages

“You Must Remember This” *

chapter 16|26 pages

Partners in Thought

A Clinical Process Theory of Narrative *

chapter 17|19 pages

On Becoming a Psychoanalyst *

chapter 18|19 pages

Knowing Oneself From the Inside Out, Knowing Oneself From the Outside In

The “Inner” and “Outer” Worlds and Their Link Through Action *

chapter 19|32 pages

Principles of Improvisation

A Model of Therapeutic Play in Relational Psychoanalysis