Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts Present Their Work - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158562232X ISBN 13: 9781585622320

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

This book is a unique and superb gateway to current psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts -- leaders in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession -- have each presented what they consider to be their most significant contribution to the field. No mere anthology, these are the key writings that underlie current discussions of psychoanalytic theory and technique.

The chapters cover contemporary ideas of intersubjectivity, object relations theory, self psychology, relational psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, clinical technique, changing concepts of unconscious, empirical research, infant observation, gender and sexuality, and more. While the differences in point of view are profound, there is also a striking coherence on some core issues. Each of the contributions features an introduction by the volume editor and a note by the author explaining the rationale for its selection. The brilliant introduction by Peter Fonagy provides an overview and places each author in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis.

A list of the authors may convey the astonishing breadth of this volume:Brenner, Bromberg, Busch, Chodorow, Cooper, Emde, Friedman, Gabbard, Goldberg, Greenberg, Grossman, Hoffman, Jacobs, Kantrowitz, Kernberg, Levenson, Luborsky, Michels, Ogden, Ornstein, Person, Pine, Renik, Schafer, Schwaber, Shapiro, Smith, Stern, Stolorow, Wallerstein

This is a "best of the best" volume -- cutting-edge writing, highly accessible and studded with vivid clinical illustrations. Anyone wishing to acquire a comprehensive, authoritative, readily accessible -- even entertaining -- guide to American psychoanalytic thinking will find their goal fulfilled in this monumental collection.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

In this sweeping overview of current psychoanalytic thinking, thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts have chosen what they consider their most significant papers -- key writings that reconstruct the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis and our understanding of the therapeutic situation. Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America is a "best of the best" volume -- cutting-edge work that covers the systematization of theory, including its application to problems of development and culture, and aspects of practice, whether pointing to elements of the therapeutic or elaborating the psychoanalyst's position within the analytic relationship.

The contributions consider a wide range of topics, including the status of theory in psychoanalysis, social phenomena such as homosexuality and authority, developmental approaches to clinical conditions, the therapeutic aspect of treatment, contexts of treatment, and the analyst's position. Together, they reflect the pragmatic nature of 21st-century American psychoanalysis, enriched by the clinical focus founded in the Berlin-Budapest tradition. Anyone wishing to acquire a comprehensive and authoritative -- and entertaining -- guide to current American psychoanalytic thinking need look no further than this monumental collection.

About the Author

Arnold M. Cooper, M.D., is Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 158562232X
• ISBN 13: 9781585622320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 799
• Editor: Cooper M.D. Dr Arnold M