Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 4) - Hardcover

George E. Atwood; Robert D. Stolorow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881630128 ISBN 13: 9780881630121

Publisher: The Analytic Press, 1984

Synopsis

Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis. It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in Freud's drive theory toward models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. In clinical practice, there has been a corresponding movement away from the classical principles of neutrality, abstinence and anonymity toward an interactive vision of the analytic situation that places the analytic relationship, with its powerful, reciprocal affective currents, in the foreground. These developments have been evident in virtually all schools of psychoanalysis in America, from the most traditional to the most radical.

Collected together for the first time, this three volume set brings together this ongoing project for a new audience.

Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition (Volume 1) - Each paper in Volume 1 is accompanied by an introduction, in which the editors place it in its historical context, and a new afterward, in which the author suggests subsequent developments in his or her thinking. This book is an invaluable resource for any clinical practitioner, teacher or student of psychoanalysis interested in exploring the exciting developments of recent years.

Relational Psychoanalysis: Innovation and Expansion (Volume 2) - Volume 2 brings together key papers of the recent past that exemplify the continuing growth and refinement of the relational sensibility. In selecting these papers, editors Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris have stressed the shared relational dimension of different psychoanalytic traditions, and they have used such commonalities to structure the best recent contributions to the literature. The topics covered in Volume 2 reflect both the evolution of psychoanalysis and the unique pathways that leading relational writers have been pursuing and in some cases establishing.

Relational Psychoanalysis: New Voices (Volume 3) - Volume 3 is a forum for new relational voices and new idioms of relational discourse. Established writers, Muriel Dimen, Sue Grand, and Ruth Stein among them, utilize aspects of their own subjectivity to illuminate heretofore neglected dimensions of cultural experience, of trauma, and of clinical stalemate. A host of new voices applies relational thinking to aspects of race, class, and politics as they emerge in the clinical situation.

About this title

About the Author

Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He has coauthored four other books for the Analytic Press: Trauma and Human Existence (2007), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice (1997), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life (1992), and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987).

Review

"I found the book thought-provoking, stimulating, and well-written. The authors have great respect for the process of the clinical situation and the need to develop theories which conform to direct experiences with patients. The concepts they discuss represent an advance in the level of scientific discourse. All practicing psychoanalysts will be involved in the continuing dialogue about analytic theory, and this book provides a thoughtful contribution to this process."

- Jeffrey Trop, M.D., Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Bulletin

"In short, this is an immensely valuable book not only because it is so astute at what it succeeds at, but also because its theorizing serves a profoundly heuristic function.  I am unreserved in my endorsement of this volume, particularly so for group therapists who work with the interstices of multiple subjectivities."

- Ronald N. Puddu, Group 

Edition details

• Publisher: The Analytic Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881630128
• ISBN 13: 9780881630121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132