Talking with Patients: A Self Psychological View of Creative Intuition and Analytic Discipline

Self psychology has given us a framework that makes sense of what we have always done intuitively. In Talking with Patients, Shapiro shows how to balance this clinical intuition with precise technique. Combining contributions from intersubjective theory with those of self psychology, he demonstrates to readers how to monitor their patients' responses as well as read their own. Shapiro adds to the empathic, listening orientation of self psychology the utility of inter-action and even confrontation.

Sanford Shapiro is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in la Jolla, California.