1st Edition
The Purloined Self Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
Acknowledgments by Edgar Levenson
Foreword, by Donnel Stern, Ph.D..
Preface, by Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D.
Introduction
1 Changing Concepts of Intimacy in Psychoanalytic Practice
2 A Holographic Model of Psychoanalytic Change
3 Psychoanalysis: Cure or Persuasion?
4 General Systems Theory: Model or Muddle?
5 A Perspective on Responsibility
6 Language and Healing
7 More Different Than Alike: Speculations on the
Uniqueness of the Psychoanalytic Experience
8 Facts or Fantasies: On the Nature of Psychoanalytic Data
9 Follow the Fox: An Inquiry into the Vicissitudes of Psychoanalytic Supervision
10 Playground or Playpen
11 Harry Stack Sullivan: The Web and the Spider
12 The Interpersonal (Sullivanian) Model
13 An Interpersonal Perspective
14 The Purloined Self
15 The Pursuit of the Particular: On the Psychoanalytic Inquiry
16 Show and Tell: The Recursive Order of Transference
17 Real Frogs in Imaginary Gardens: Facts and Fantasies in Psychoanalysis
18 Whatever Happened to the Cat? Interpersonal Perspectives on the Self
19 Character, Personality, and the Politics of Change
Bibliography of Edgar A. Levenson, M. D.
Biography
Edgar A. Levenson is Fellow Emeritus, Training, Supervisory Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Graduate Studies Division, Honorary Fellow at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Life Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Winner of the 2006 Mary S. Sigourney Award, he is author of over one hundred and ten publications, including Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983).
Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Division I program in Psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute. He is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the White Institute, on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Internet Editor of the Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action blog. Dr. Slomowitz is in private practice in New York City.
"Who else combines so much playfulness together with deeply felt experience? Psychoanalysis has in Edgar Levenson a master critic and renewer."–Leston L. Havens, M.D. (1924-2011)
