Bücher der Reihe Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

This book contains state of the art studies in Bion scholarship that are directly applicable to clinical and theoretical thinking.

This book contains state of the art studies in Bion scholarship that are directly applicable to clinical and theoretical thinking.

Using the contemporary critique of Kohut and Loewald as a touchstone of inquiry into the status of psychoanalysis, this text focuses on a select group of postmodern theorists - including Lewis Aron and Owen Renik - whose writings comprise a questioning subtext to Kohut's and Loewald's ideas.

Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that accommodates the developmental insights of infancy research.

This overview of intersubjectively theory offers contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytical neutrality, intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration and what it means to think and work contextually.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective.  In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical phenomena, including transference and resistance, conflict formation, therapeutic action, affective and self development, and borderline and psychotic states.  As a consequence, the authors demonstrate that an intersubjective approach greatly facilitates empathic access to the patient''s subjective world and, in the same measure, greatly enhances the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis.  Psychoanalytic Treatment is another step in the ongoing development of intersubjectivity theory, as born out in Structures of Subjectivity (1984), Contexts of Being (1992), and Working Intersubjectively (1997), all published by the Analytic Press

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

Making use of relational systems theory, this book shows that experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by the regulatory processes of everyday life such as feeling, knowing, forming categories, making decisions, using language, creating narratives, sensing time, remembering, forgetting, and fantasizing.

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - philosophical, developmental, biological, and neuroscientific - this title addresses the tension between individuality and the emergence of contextualism as a mode of psychoanalytic theory and practice, providing insights into the role and place of individuality in and out of the clinical setting.

The motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold. Placing motivational systems theory within a contemporary dynamic systems theory, this title offers responses to the critics of motivational systems theory.

This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a centre of experience and motivation.

Provides psychoanalysts with information on how to work with medication theoretically, clinically, and technically in the context of a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic treatment. This book also discusses evidence that a change in the use of medication has taken place and an examination of the factors that have led to this shift.

Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction, including many-layered guilt and shame, aspects of envy and jealousy, attachment to negative affects, turning trauma from passive to active, conflicts within the superego, and the defensive use of omnipotence of responsibility.In Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand, Wurmser, Jarass, and their colleagues consider these and other factors insightfully, such as the extent to which traumatization lives on in self-directed aggressions of the superego in the claim of omnipotence; the significant role of deep conflicts between opposite values and loyalties in bringing about the prohibition of anything "good" and thus of the negative therapeutic reaction in particular and masochism in general; and the extent to which envy, jealousy, and resentment can be encountered in the "inner object," the "inner judge" (i.e., the superego), and how they are directed against the self.

This text on the nature of emotional experience argues that, in their simplest form, affects are the presymbolic representatives and governors of motivational systems.

This text describes the analytic treatment of eight female homosexuals with common symptoms of incomplete body image and unconscious denial of differences between the sexes. It details the recurring treatment phases that typified their analyses and offers formulations.