1st Edition
Building Bridges The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
By Stuart Pizer
Copyright 2022
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Building Bridges , Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian perspective that comprehends paradox as the condition for preserving an intrapsychic and relational “potential space,” Pizer explores how the straddling of paradox requires an ongoing process of negotiation... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction by Donnel B.Stern I. Paradox and Negotiation in Development and Analysis 1. The Negotiation of Paradox in the Analytic Process 2. "I Wish You Were My Father!": Negotiating Potential Space 3. Multiplicity, Paradox, and the Creative Self 4. The Capacity to Tolerate Paradox: Bridging Multiplicity Within the Self 5. Facing the Nonnegotiable II. Paradox and Negotiation in Wider Contexts: Genders, Species, Nation 6. A Wider Context . . . and a Critique of "Tribal" Gender Category 7. Paradox and Negotiation in a Wider Context: Species 8. Paradox and Negotiation in a Wider Context: Nations Epilogue: "The Scent of a Spring Day"
Biography
Stuart A. Pizer, Ph.D., ABPP is a Founding Board Member, Faculty, Supervising and Personal Analyst, and Past President of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Assistant Professor (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. A former President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, he is Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His practice is in Cambridge, MA.
