Table Of Content“It’s hard to imagine that in this seventh co-a uthored book, Lichtenberg,
Lachmann, and Fosshage have managed to create a thoroughly fresh vision
of the psychoanalytic engagement, distinct not only from what other con-
tributors have brought to us, but also distinct from their own past writings.
Presenting, as they themselves write, ‘… a new synthesis of motivation,
development, nonlinear emotional influences, and relational aspects of the
psychoanalytic process…’ Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage now
move to an enhanced focus on lived experience, on what it feels like for the
‘doer- doing’ as he or she moves into relating, creating, living, and breath-
ing. Their novel and expert focus on the nonverbal, their exquisite elabora-
tions on affect-t one and ambiance, generate a new appreciation of what the
trio have already brought to us in terms of motivation and development.
For example, I call attention to the clinical and conceptual distinction they
make between disappointment and disillusionment. And, as always, there
is an abundance of beautifully rendered clinical material. In all, this is a
fascinating volume. It is groundbreaking and truly interdisciplinary in the
best sense of the term. I can only add: these three have done it again!”
Estelle Shane, PhD, Board Member and Training and Supervising
Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
An Experience- based Vision of
Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
An Experience-b ased Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks
at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intend-
ing, and relates development, sense of self, and identity to changes that are
brought about in analytic psychotherapy.
Based on conceptualizing experience as it is lived from infancy through-
out life, this book identifies three major pathways to development and
applies Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage’s experience- based vision
to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Using detailed clinical narratives and
vignettes, as well as organizational studies, the book takes up the distinc-
tion between a person’s responding to a failure in achieving a goal with
disappointment and seeking an alternative path, or with disillusion and a
collapse in motivation.
From the variety of topics covered, the reader will get a broad overview
of the experience- based analytic conception of motivation begun with
Lichtenberg’s seven motivational systems. This title will be of great inter-
est to established psychoanalysts, as well as those training in psychoanaly-
sis and clinical counselling psychology programs.
Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, Graduate Baltimore-W ashington Psychoanalytic
Institute, is Cofounder of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis,
Cofounder of Psychoanalytic Inquiry; and Editor-i n-C hief of Psychoanalytic
Inquiry and the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series.
James L. Fosshage, PhD, is a Past President of IAPSP; Cofounder,
Board Director, Faculty, and Supervisor, National Institute for the
Psychotherapies (NYC); Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic
Study of Subjectivity (NYC); Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York
University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Frank M. Lachmann, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and Founding Faculty of
the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and is author or
coauthor of more than 160 journal publications and books.
Joe Caruso is an author, business advisor, speaker, and an advisor to top
leaders on individual and collective behavioral change.
Mor Shechory- Stahl, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist; Lecturer in
psychotherapy programs in Israel (Department of Psychology, Bar-
Ilan University; Levinsky College of Education); practicing psycho-
analytic psychotherapy in private practice; advisory board member of
‘In- Between’, a nonprofit that supports divorced families.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
JOSEPH D. LICHTENBERG
Series Editor
Like its counterpart, Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health
Professionals, the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series presents a diversity of sub-
jects within a diversity of approaches to those subjects. Under the editorship of
Joseph Lichtenberg, in collaboration with Melvin Bornstein and the editorial board
of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, the volumes in this series strike a balance between
research, theory, and clinical application. We are honored to have published the
works of various innovators in psychoanalysis, including Frank Lachmann, James
Fosshage, Robert Stolorow, Donna Orange, Louis Sander, Léon Wurmser, James
Grotstein, Joseph Jones, Doris Brothers, Fredric Busch, and Joseph Lichtenberg,
among others.
The series includes books and monographs on mainline psychoanalytic topics,
such as sexuality, narcissism, trauma, homosexuality, jealousy, envy, and varied
aspects of analytic process and technique. In our efforts to broaden the field of
analytic interest, the series has incorporated and embraced innovative discoveries
in infant research, self psychology, intersubjectivity, motivational systems, affects
as process, responses to cancer, borderline states, contextualism, postmodernism,
attachment research and theory, medication, and mentalization. As further inves-
tigations in psychoanalysis come to fruition, we seek to present them in readable,
easily comprehensible writing.
After more than 25 years, the core vision of this series remains the investiga-
tion, analysis and discussion of developments on the cutting edge of the psycho-
analytic field, inspired by a boundless spirit of inquiry. A full list of all the titles
available in the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series is available at https:// www.
routledge.com/ Psychoanalytic- Inquiry- Book- Series/ book- series/ LEAPIBS.
An Experience-b ased
Vision of Psychoanalytic
Theory and Practice
Joseph D. Lichtenberg,
James L. Fosshage, and
Frank M. Lachmann
with contributions
from Joe Caruso and
Mor Shechory- Stahl
First published 2021
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Contents
1 Preview, historical perspective, and the plan of the book 1
2 The treatment of Eileen 62
3 The treatment of Samantha 76
Summary of Chapters 2 and 3 105
4 Disappointment and disillusion 108
Discussion 120
Index 139
