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CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PSYCHOANALYST’S LIFE EXPERIENCE Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience explores how lead- ers in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy address the phenomena of the psychoanalyst’s personal life and psychology. In this edited book, each author describes pivotal childhood and adult life events and crises that have contributed to personality formation, personal and professional functioning, choices of theo- retical positions, and clinical technique. By expanding psychoanalytic study beyond clinical theory and technique to include a more careful examination of the psychoanalyst’s life events and other subjective phenomena, readers will have an opportunity to focus on specific ways in which these events and crises affect the tenor of the therapist’s presence in the consulting room, and how these occurrences affect clinical choices. Chapters cover a broad range of topics including illness, adoption, sexual identity and expe- rience, trauma, surviving the death of one’s own analyst, working during 9/11, cross-cultural issues, growing up in a communist household, and other family dynamics. Throughout, Steven Kuchuck shows how contemporary psychoanalysis teaches that it is only by acknowledging the therapist’s life experience and resulting psy- chological makeup that analysts can be most effective in helping their patients. However, to date, few articles and fewer books have been entirely devoted to this topic. Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience forges new ground in exploring these under-researched areas. It will be essential reading for practicing psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, those working in other mental health fields, and graduate students alike. Steven Kuchuck is a faculty member, supervisor, and is on the Board of Directors at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He is a practicing psychoana- lyst in Manhattan, New York. He is also co-editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives and Associate Editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series pub- lished by Routledge. RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES BOOK SERIES LEWIS ARON & ADRIENNE HARRIS Series Co-Editors STEVEN KUCHUCK & EYAL ROZMARIN Associate Editors ft# The Relational Perspectives Book Series (RPBS) publishes books that grow out of or contribute to the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. The term relational psychoanalysis was first used by Greenberg and Mitchell (1983) to bridge the traditions of interpersonal relations, as developed within interpersonal psychoanalysis and object relations, as developed within contemporary British theory. But, under the seminal work of the late Stephen Mitchell, the term rela- tional psychoanalysis grew and began to accrue to itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries—interpersonal psychoanalysis, object relations theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, and elements of contempo- rary Freudian and Kleinian thought—flow into this tradition, which understands relational configurations between self and others, both real and fantasied, as the primary subject of psychoanalytic investigation. We refer to the relational tradition, rather than to a relational school, to highlight that we are identifying a trend, a tendency within contemporary psychoanalysis, not a more formally organized or coherent school or system of beliefs. Our use of the term relational signifies a dimension of theory and practice that has become salient across the wide spectrum of contemporary psychoanalysis. Now under the editorial supervision of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris with the assistance of Associate Editors Steven Kuchuck and Eyal Rozmarin, the Relational Perspec- tives Book Series originated in 1990 under the editorial eye of the late Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell was the most prolific and influential of the originators of the relational tradition. He was committed to dialogue among psychoanalysts and he abhorred the authoritarianism that dictated adherence to a rigid set of beliefs or technical restrictions. He championed open discussion, comparative and integra- tive approaches, and he promoted new voices across the generations. Included in the Relational Perspectives Book Series are authors and works that come from within the relational tradition, extend and develop the tradition, as well as works that critique relational approaches or compare and contrast it with alternative points of view. The series includes our most distinguished senior psy- choanalysts along with younger contributors who bring fresh vision. Vol. 1 Vol. 8 Conversing with Uncertainty: Unformulated Experience: Practicing Psychotherapy From Dissociation to Imagination In A Hospital Setting in Psychoanalysis Rita Wiley McCleary Donnel B. Stern Vol. 9 Vol. 2 Influence and Autonomy in Affect in Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis A Clinical Synthesis Stephen A. Mitchell Charles Spezzano Vol. 10 Vol. 3 Fairbairn, Then and Now The Analyst in the Inner City: Neil J. Skolnick and Race, Class, and Culture David E. Scharff (eds.) through a Psychoanalytic Lens Neil Altman Vol. 11 Building Bridges:Negotiation of Vol. 4 Paradox in Psychoanalysis A Meeting of Minds: Stuart A. Pizer Mutuality in Psychoanalysis Lewis Aron Vol. 12 Relational Perspectives on the Body Vol. 5 Lewis Aron & Frances Sommer Holding and Psychoanalysis: Anderson (eds.) A Relational Perspective Joyce A. Slochower Vol. 13 Seduction, Surrender, and Vol. 6 Transformation: Emotional The Therapist as a Person: Engagement in the Analytic Process Life Crises, Life Choices, Life Karen Maroda Experiences, and Their Effects on Treatment Vol. 14 Barbara Gerson (ed.) Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition Vol. 7 Stephen A. Mitchell & Lewis Aron Soul on the Couch: (eds.) Spirituality, Religion, and Morality in Contemporary Vol. 15 Psychoanalysis The Collapse of the Self and Its Charles Spezzano & Gerald J. Therapeutic Restoration Gargiulo (eds.) Rochelle G. K. Kainer Vol. 16 Vol. 24 Psychoanalytic Participation: Minding Spirituality Action, Interaction, and Randall Lehman Sorenson Integration Kenneth A. Frank Vol. 25 Gender as Soft Assembly Vol. 17 Adrienne Harris The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective Vol. 26 Sue Grand Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Vol. 18 Education Objects of Hope: Emanuel Berman Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis Vol. 27 Steven H. Cooper The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Vol. 19 Identities Who is the Dreamer, Who Dreams Carlo Strenger the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences Vol. 28 James S. Grotstein Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. II: Innovation and Expansion Vol. 20 Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris (eds.) Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity Vol. 29 Stephen A. Mitchell Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors: A Relational View Vol. 21 Sebastiano Santostefano Looking for Ground: Countertransference Vol. 30 and the Problem of Value in The Healer’s Bent: Solitude and Psychoanalysis Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter Peter G. M. Carnochan James T. McLaughlin Vol. 22 Vol. 31 Sexuality, Intimacy, Power Unconscious Fantasies and the Muriel Dimen Relational World Danielle Knafo & Kenneth Feiner Vol. 23 September 11: Trauma and Human Vol. 32 Bonds Getting From Here to There: Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Rosenthal, Analytic Love, Analytic Process & Daniel S. Schechter (eds.) Sheldon Bach Vol. 33 Vol. 41 Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as The Hero in the Mirror: Self-Destructive Survival From Fear to Fortitude Katie Gentile Sue Grand Vol. 34 Vol. 42 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. III: Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on New Voices Human Nature and Psychoanalysis Melanie Suchet, Adrienne Harris, George Goldstein & Helen & Lewis Aron (eds.) Golden (eds.) Vol. 43 Vol. 35 Invasive Objects: Minds under Siege Comparative-Integrative Paul Williams Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective for the Vol. 44 Discipline’s Second Century Good Enough Endings: Brent Willock Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Vol. 36 Relational Perspectives Bodies in Treatment: Jill Salberg (ed.) The Unspoken Dimension Frances Sommer Anderson (ed.) Vol. 45 First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Vol. 37 Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Adolescent Identities: Warmaking, and Resistance A Collection of Readings Adrienne Harris & Steven Botticelli Deborah Browning (ed.) (eds.) Vol. 38 Vol. 46 Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of A Disturbance in the Field: Transformation in Jewish Mysticism Essays in Transference- and Psychoanalysis Countertransference Engagement Karen E. Starr Steven H. Cooper Vol. 39 Vol. 47 Dare to be Human: A Contemporary Up rooted Minds: Surviving the Psychoanalytic Journey Politics of Terror in the Americas Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum Nancy Caro Hollander Vol. 40 Vol. 48 The Analyst in the Inner City, Second Toward Mutual Recognition: Edition: Race, Class, and Culture Relational Psychoanalysis and the through a Psychoanalytic Lens Christian Narrative Neil Altman Marie T. Hoffman Vol. 49 Vol. 55 Understanding and A Psychotherapy for the People: Treating Dissociative Identity Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis Disorder: A Relational Lewis Aron & Karen Starr Approach Elizabeth F. Howell Vol. 56 Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Vol. 50 Relational Perspective With Culture in Mind: Joyce Slochower Psychoanalytic Stories Muriel Dimen (ed.) Vol. 57 The Play Within the Play: The Enacted Vol. 51 Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. IV: Gil Katz Expansion of Theory Lewis Aron & Adrienne Vol. 58 Harris (eds.) Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation Vol. 52 Daniel Shaw Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. V: Evolution of Process Vol. 59 Lewis Aron & Adrienne Clinical Implications of the Harris (eds.) Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional Vol. 53 Steven Kuchuck (ed.) Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice Vol. 60 Nancy Chodorow The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment Vol. 54 Beatrice Beebe and Frank M. The Silent Past and the Lachmann Invisible Present: Memory, Trauma, and Vol. 61 Representation in The Embodied Analyst: From Freud Psychotherapy and Reich to Relationality Paul Renn Jon Sletvold CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PSYCHOANALYST’S LIFE EXPERIENCE When the Personal Becomes Professional Edited by Steven Kuchuck Routledge k Taylor & Francis Group NEW YORK AND LONDON First published 2014 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Taylor & Francis The right of the editor to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been request ISBN: 978–0–415–50798–1 (hbk) ISBN: 978–0–415–50799–8 (pbk) ISBN: 978–1–315–88217–8 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon FOR DAVID FLOHR
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