Innovations in Psychoanalysis

Originality, Development, Progress
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-40861-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

From its very inception, psychoanalysis has been a discipline encompassing two contradictory tendencies. This dualistic tendency – tradition alongside disenchantment and the will to improve knowledge – is likely responsible for psychoanalysis’s powerful capacity to survive. In Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress, Aner Govrin and Jon Mills bring together the most eminent and diverse psychoanalysts to reflect upon the evolution, vitality, and richness of psychoanalysis today.

Psychoanalysis is undergoing significant transformations involving the entire spectrum of disciplinary differences. This book illuminates these transformations, importantly revealing the innovations in technique, the evolving understanding of theory within existing schools of thought, the need for empirical resurgence, innovations in infant research, neuropsychoanalysis, in the development of new interventions and methods of treatment, and in philosophical and metatheoretical paradigms. Uniquely bringing together psychoanalysts representing different fields of expertise, the contributors answer two questions in this collection of ground-breaking essays: "What are the most important developments in psychoanalysis today?" and "What impact has your chosen perspective had on conducting psychoanalytic treatment?" Their thought-provoking and challenging answers are essential for anyone who wants to fully understand the field of psychoanalysis in our changing, current world.

Innovations in Psychoanalysis brings a whole array of differing schools of thought in dialogue with one another and will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, philosophers, and historians of the behavioral sciences worldwide.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Govrin, Aner

Mills, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Contributors

Introduction

Aner Govrin and Jon Mills

1. Contemporary Freudian theory: perspectives on synthetic ego functions and the paradox of punishment fantasies

Stephen J. Miller

2. The most innovative ideas in psychoanalysis: a kleinian approach

Rachel B. Blass

3. Cultural complexes in the psyche of individuals and groups: revisioning analytical psychology from within

Thomas Singer

4. The subject in the age of world-formation (mondialisation): advances in Lacanian theory from the Québec Group

Jeffrey S. Librett

5. Existential psychoanalysis: the role of freedom in the clinical encounter

M. Guy Thompson

6. Moving forward: new findings on the right brain and their implications for psychoanalysis

Allan N. Schore

7. The impact of the interpersonal innovations on contemporary psychoanalysis

Irwin Hirsch

8. Relational self-psychology: a contemporary self-psychological approach to the practice of psychoanalysis

Estelle Shane

9. Relational psychoanalysis: origins, scope, and recent innovations

Steven Kuchuck

10. Phenomenology speaks: from intersubjectivity to the ethical turn

Donna M. Orange

11. Self-medication, anaclitic and introjective personality styles, drug of choice, and the treatment of people with substance use disorders: theoretical and clinical implications of the empirical research

William H. Gottdiener

12. Bodies and screen relations: moving treatment from wishful thinking to informed decision-making

Gillian Isaacs Russell and Todd Essig

Appendix

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aner Govrin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the doctoral program Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics in the Department of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Author of many publications in psychoanalysis and ethics, he maintains a private practice in Tel Aviv and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is a faculty member in the postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University; is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto; and is the author of numerous works in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies. He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada.