1st Edition

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 16 How Responsive Should We Be?

Edited By Arnold I. Goldberg Copyright 2000
416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

Volume 16 of Progress in Self Psychology, How Responsive Should We Be , illuminates the continuing tension between Kohut's emphasis on the patient's subjective experience and the post-Kohutian intersubjectivists' concern with the therapist's own subjectivity by focusing on issues of therapeutic posture and degree of therapist activity. Teicholz provides an integrative context for examining... Read more
I. Introduction - Jill Gardner
II. From the Kohut Archives - Charles Strozier
III. Theoretical
Forms of Relatedness: Self Preservation and the Schizoid Continuum - Mark J. Gehrie
The Analyst's Empathy, Subjectivity and Authenticity: Affect as the Common Denominator - Judith Guss Teicholz
The Active Exploratory and Assertive Self as Manifested in Dreams - James M. Fisch
The Development of the Dyad: A Bidrectional Revisioning of Some - Lynn Preston & Ellen Shumsky  
IV. Clinical
The Need for Efficacy in The treatment of Suicidal Patients - Hans-Peter Hartmann & Wolfgang E. Milch  
Supervision: Something New Under the Sun - Allen M. Siegel & Eva-Maria Topel
Bulimia as Metaphor: Twinship and Play in the Treatment of the Difficult Patient - James E. Gorney
Reflections on Selfobject Transferences and a Continuum of Responsiveness - Louisa R. Livingston
Easy Listening, Prolonged Empathic Immersion, and the Selfobject Needs of the Analyst - Jeffrey L. Mermelstein
Dimensions of Experience in Relationship Seeking - Mary E. Connors
V. Applied
Using Self Psychology in Brief Psychotherapy - Jill R. Garder
Discussion of Jill Gardner's Paper - Linda A. Chernus
Developmental Aspects of the Twinship Selfobject Need and Religious Experience - Lallene J. Rector
The Creative Process - George Hagman
Restoration of the Past: A Guide to Therapy With Placed Children - Marilyn W. Silin

Biography

Arnold Goldberg, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejan Harris, M.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College in Chicago, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago. He is the author of a number of books, including Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis (TAP, 1999) and Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior (TAP, 2000).