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The Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent Heart Melts Forward

Edited By Victoria Demos, Adrienne Harris Copyright 2018
    328 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    328 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book brings together an engaging study, using Emmanuel Ghent’s collected papers, of theoretical and personal origins of the relational turn in psychoanalysis. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas have been hugely influential. However, he published sparingly and his papers are scattered across a range of sources. In this book, his key writings are reproduced, along with analyses and critiques by major contemporary psychoanalytic figures such as Adam Phillips, Jessica Benjamin, Seth Warren, Adrienne Harris and Barry Magrid.

    This book provides a thorough examination of the key tenets of Ghent’s thinking and illustrates the continued importance of his theoretical and clinical work for the next generation of psychoanalysts.

    Introduction Victoria Demos and Adrienne Harris

    Part One: Core Papers and Commentaries　

    1. Emmanuel Ghent and the Origins of Relational Psychoanalysis

      2. Anthony Bass

      Credo — The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies (1989)

      EMMANUEL GHENT　

    2. Surrender and Self-Discovery: Ghent’s Reflections on the "Force of Growth" and What Impedes It

      3. JESSICA BENJAMIN　

      Masochism, Submission, Surrender—Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender (1990)

      EMMANUEL GHENT　

    3. Medicine Man(nie): Commentary on Emmanuel Ghent's "Paradox and Process"

      4. MURIEL DIMEN　

      Paradox and Process (1992)

      EMMANUEL GHENT

    4. Introduction to E. Ghent, "Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation"

      5. C. SETH WARREN

      Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1995)

      EMMANUEL GHENT　

    5. The Butterfly in the Consulting Room

      6. BARRY MAGID　

      Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory (2002)

      EMMANUEL GHENT

      Part Two: Early Writings　

    6. Psyche and Eye (1950)

      7. EMMANUEL GHENT　

    7. Countertransference: Its Reflection in the Process of Peer-Group Supervision

      8. CHAIM F. SHATAN, BENJAMIN BRODY, EMMANUEL GHENT

      Part Three: In Ghent’s Words　

    8. Relations: Introduction to the First IARPP Conference (2001)

      9. EMMANUEL GHENT　

    9. On Relational Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Dr. Emmanuel Ghent/Interviewer: Lewis Aron (2000)

      10. LEWIS ARON

      EMMANUEL GHENT

      Part Four: Reminiscences 　

    10. A Fragment of an Analysis with Mannie Ghent

      11. RON BALAMUTH　

    11. Reminiscences of Mannie as a Clinical Supervisor

      12. LEWIS ARON　

    12. The Years with Ghent

      13. VICTORIA DEMOS　

    13. Impressions of Mannie

      14. JESSICA BENJAMIN　

    14. Heart Melts Forward: Emmanuel Ghent (1925-2003)

              ADRIENNE HARRIS

    Afterward On What We Need: A Celebration of the Work of Emmanuel Ghent

    Adam Phillips

    Biography

    Victoria Demos is Supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, New York.

    Adrienne Harris is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology (Adjunct) and Clinical Consultant on the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU.

    "Heart Melts Forward is a book, of course--and so when we consider it, we think first of Manny’s writing, which was prescient and brilliant, and which continues to serve as one of the primary inspirations of the entire relational literature. But it was because Manny was the person he was, the whole person he was, that he became as beloved and influential as he was. Luckily for us, his personhood suffuses every one of the gripping and profound articles collected here. In reading this book you will be standing on the foundation of relational psychoanalysis. But there will be more: if you didn’t know Manny, you will wish you had."-Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D., William Alanson White Institute and NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

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