An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and identity to changes that are brought about in analytic psychotherapy.

Based on conceptualizing experience as it is lived from infancy throughout life, this book identifies three major pathways to development and applies Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage’s experience-based vision to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Using detailed clinical narratives and vignettes, as well as organizational studies, the book takes up the distinction between a person’s responding to a failure in achieving a goal with disappointment and seeking an alternative path, or with disillusion and a collapse in motivation.

From the variety of topics covered, the reader will get a broad overview of an experience-based analytic conception of motivation begun with Lichtenberg’s seven motivational systems. This title will be of great interest to established psychoanalysts, as well as those training in psychoanalysis and clinical counselling psychology programs.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, Graduate Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, is Cofounder of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Cofounder Psychoanalytic Inquiry; and Editor-in Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series.

James L. Fosshage, PhD, is a Past President of IAPSP; Cofounder, Board Director, Faculty, and Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NYC); Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (NYC); Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Frank M. Lachmann, PhD, a psychoanalyst and Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and is author or coauthor of more than 160 journal publications and books.

Joe Caruso is an author, business advisor, speaker, and an advisor to top leaders on individual and collective behavioral change.

Mor Shechory-Stahl, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist; Lecturer in psychotherapy programs in Israel (Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University; Levinsky College of Education); practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy in private practice; advisory board member of 'In-Between', a nonprofit that supports divorced families.