I. Development of the Capacity for Self-Analysis: Exploration of our "Personal Equations"
Developmental Foundations for the Capacity for Self-Analysis: Parallels in the Roles of Caregiver and Analyst - E. Virginia Demos
Does Our Self-Analysis Take Into Consideration Our Assumptions?
-Ricardo Bernardi and Beatriz de Leon de Bernardi
II. Analytic Work and Self-Analysis
Contemplating the Mirror of the Other: Empathy and Self-Analysis - Alfred Margulies
Work with Patients and the Experience of Self-Analysis - James T. McLaughlin
Engagements in Analysis and Their Use in Self-Analysis - Henry F. Smith
III. Modes of Self-Analytic Activity
Self-Analysis of a Taboo - Ernest S. Wolf
On Fastball Pitching, Astronomical Clocks, and Self-Cognition - John E. Gedo
On Talking to Ourselves: Some Self-Analytical Reflections on Self-Analysis - Robert Gardner
IV. The Role of the Other in Self-Analysis
The Discovery of Real and Fantasized Audiences for Self-Analysis - Rivka R. Eifermann
Mutual Supervision, Countertransference, and Self-Analysis - Adrienne Harris and Therese Ragen
Self and Other in Self-Analysis - Warren S. Poland
V. Self-Analysis, Writing, and Creativity
To Write or Not to Write: A Note on Self-Analysis and the Residstance to Self-Analysis - Stephen M. Sonnenberg
Beckett: Self-Analysis and Creativity - Didier Anzieu
Freud's Self-Analysis - Martine Lussier
Biography
A graduate and faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, James W. Barron, Ph.D., has broad interests in psychoanalytic education. Past president of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Dr. Barron is editor of the Psychologist Psychoanalyst and coeditor of the volume Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology (1992). He maintains a private practice and is an Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
"This is one of the most valuable books on psychoanalysis to appear in many years. The contributors offer a fascinating overview both of the way that analysts go about analyzing themselves and the way that their psychology resonates with that of their patients."
- Theodore Jacobs, M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Institute
