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Self Disclosure and the Analytic Relationship: Facing the Facts book cover

1st Edition

Self Disclosure and the Analytic Relationship Facing the Facts

Edited By Stephanie R. Brody Copyright 2027
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the inevitable intrusions of the analyst’s personal life into clinical work and how to manage the challenges of self-disclosure, secrecy and analytic identity within this context. Is non-disclosure, e.g. abstinence and neutrality, a realistic goal, or is it an artifact of an idealized analytic identification? Does self-disclosure of any sort by the analyst derail the analytic... Read more

Introduction:  Self-Disclosure and the Analytic Relationship

Stephanie Brody

 

Introduction to Section One: Facing or Not Facing the Facts

Stephanie Brody

 

01. The Experience of Non Self-Disclosure with a Mortally Ill Analyst

Holly Friedman Housman

02. So Very Human: Reality’s Messy Intrusion and Self-Disclosure

Robin A. Deutsch

03. Self-Disclosure, Mortality and What Comes Next

Joseph Schwartz

 

Introduction to Section Two:  What Cannot Be Hidden

Stephanie Brody

 

04. Out of the Closet and Out of the Boxes: Reflections of a Gay Analyst on Reality and Disclosure in the Analytic Space

Cary Friedman

 

05. Existential Maturation as a Guide to Aging- and Illness-Related Self-Disclosure Practices

Linda Emanuel

06. Dilemmas of Self-Disclosure: The Hypervisibility and Invisibility of Race and Culture

Usha Tammala-Narra

 

Introduction to Section Three:  Transparency and Porous Boundaries

Stephanie Brody

 

07. Quarantine: Swimming in Dark Places

Stephanie Brody

 

08. Being Apart Together: The Virtual Landscape in Psychoanalysis

Anne Adelman

 

09. Caught in the Crossfire: Political Intersections, Collisions, and Confrontations

Karen E. Starr

 

Introduction to Section Four:  Hidden, Discovered, Evolved

Stephanie Brody

 

10. Dogmas, Difficulties, and Dilemmas: The Role of Self Disclosure

Susan Pasternak

 

11. What Can’t I Say? Sexual Boundary Violations and Ethics in Psychoanalysis

Jane V. Kite

 

12. Labyrinth

Michele Baker

 

Coda

Stephanie Brody

Biography

Stephanie R. Brody, PsyD is a Supervising and Training Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the author of Entering Night Country: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience (2016).

'In the library of psychoanalytic studies, few address with such open candor as does this the art of clinical practice, the unforeseen challenges that confront every therapist. The abstinence principle exists to advance inquiry, not to serve as a cover story for the analyst’s protection. In this master class, beginner and experienced analysts alike will discover challenges addressing what to hold back and what to reveal. Here, no rules are proclaimed, but the clarity of questions is richly sharpened. What could be better?'

Warren Poland, author of Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis

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