Postmodern Self Psychology

272 Pages·2002·6.5 MB·English

by  Arnold I. Goldberg

POSTMODERN
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Progress in Self Psychology
Volume 18
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Progress in Self Psychology
Editor, Arnold Goldberg, M.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
James L. Fosshage, Ph.D.
Mark J. Gehrie, Ph.D.
Hans-Peter Hartmann, M.D.
Wolfgang E. Milch, M.D.
Estelle Shane, Ph.D.
EDITORIAL BOARD
James M. Fisch, M.D.
Henry Friedman, M.D.
Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D.
Charles Jaffe, M.D.
Daniel Kriegman, Ph.D.
Robert J. Leider, M.D.
Arthur Malin, M.D.
Russell Meares, M.D.
Anna Ornstein, M.D.
Paul H. Ornstein, M.D.
Gary Rodin, M.D.
Allen Siegel, M.D.
Judith Guss Teicholz, Ed.D.
Marian Tolpin, M.D.
Paul H. Tolpin, M.D.
Ernest S. Wolf, M.D.
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POSTMODERN
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Progress in Self Psychology
Volume 18
Arnold Goldberg
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2002 Hillsdale, NJ London
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction
Arnold Goldberg ix
1. Self Psychology Since Kohut
Arnold Goldberg 1
2. Heinz Kohut Memorial Lecture:
Reflective Relativism and Kohut's Self Psychology
Mark J. Gehrie 15
I CLINICAL
3. Shattering the Template: The Effect of Moments
of Meeting on Enduring Systems of Pathological
Accommodation
Gary Taerk 33
4. From an Empathic Stance to an Empathic Dance:
Empathy as a Bidirectional Negotiation
Lynn Preston and Ellen Shumsky 47
5. Kohut's Understanding and Explaining Steps:
Clinical Considerations Influencing the Need for a
Prolonged Understanding-Only Phase
Jeffrey J. Mermelstein 63
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6. The Interpretive Process with a Phobic Young Woman
Salee Jenkins 77
7. Interpreting and Negotiating Conflicts of Interests
in the Analytic Relationship: A Discussion of Salee
Jenkins's Clinical Case
Daniel Kriegman 87
8. The Role of Empathy and Interpretation in the
Therapeutic Process: A Discussion of Salee Jenkins's
Clinical Case
Marian Tolpin 113
II THEORY
9. Thinking Dynamically in Psychoanalytic Theory
and Practice: A Review of Intersubjectivity Theory
Gabriel S. Trap, Melanie L. Burke,
and Jeffrey L. Trap 129
10. Selfobject and Selfsubject Relationships
Jan T0nnesvang 149
11. Doing Psychoanalysis of Normal Development:
Forward Edge Transferences
Marian Tolpin 167
III APPLIED
12. Religious Experience as Selfobject Experience
Pamela J. Holliman 193
13. Self and Other in the Self-Psychological Approach
to Religion: A Discussion of Pamela Holliman's
"Religious Experience as Selfobject Experience"
Celia Brickman 207
14. The Iconic 1960s English Film Darling:
Portrait of the Contemporary Empty Self
Gordon A. Schulz 217
Author Index 243
Subject Index 247
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Contributors
Celia Brickman, Ph.D. is Staff and Faculty Member, Center for Religion
and Psychotherapy of Chicago.
Melanie L. Burke, L.C.S.W., Faculty, Institute of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; Private Practice in Psychotherapy.
Mark J. Gehrie, Ph.D. is Faculty, Training, and Supervising Analyst,
Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago; Visiting Lecturer, University
of Chicago Division of General Studies.
Pamela J. Holliman, Ph.D. is Executive Director and Psychologist,
Samaritan Counseling Center, Philadelphia.
Salee Jenkins, Ph.D. is Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago;
Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern University Medical School.
Daniel Kriegman, Ph.D. is Faculty, Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis; Founder, Zuzu's Place: A cooperative house run by
and for psychiatric survivors.
Jeffrey J. Mermelstein, Ph.D. is Member, New York University
Postdoctoral Society and Upstate New York Psychoanalytic Society.
Lynn Preston, M.A., M.S. is Faculty, Training and Research Institute
for Self Psychology; Faculty, Institute for Contemporary
Psychotherapy, New York City.
Gordon A. Schulz, Psy.D. is Staff, Child Abuse Unit for Studies,
Education, and Services (CAUSES), Chicago.
Ellen Shumsky, M.S.W. is Faculty and Supervisor, Training and
Research Institute for Self Psychology; Faculty and Supervisor,
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, New York City.
Gary Taerk, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of
Toronto; Board Member and Faculty, Institute for the Advancement
of Self Psychology, Toronto.
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Marian Tolpin, M.D. is Faculty, Training, and Supervising Analyst,
Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago; Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry, Chicago Medical Schoo!.
Jan T0nnesvang, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor, Department of
Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Gabriel S. Trop, M.A. received his master's degree in German Studies
and is currently studying philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.
Jeffrey L. Trop, M.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine; Faculty,
Training, and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles.
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Introduction
Arnold Goldberg
Heinz Kohut used to say that he learned about narcissism during the
period of time when he served as president of the American Psycho
analytic Association. He said that working as an administrator revealed
to him all of the frailties and sensitivities of human beings. I can readily
say that serving as editor of this series of volumes of Progress in Self
Psychology was as enlightening a course on narcissism as one could
possibly imagine. I was able to be both witness and participant in all
of the intense and varied aspects of mankind's narcissism and its vicis
situdes, and so I can probably qualify as an accurate reporter of these
issues as I now move to the sidelines.
As a convenience, I would like to discuss separately the three major
divisions in assembling a journal or a book: the authors or writers, the
readers, and the editor. Each role deserves a special consideration
although any student of narcissism may hardly be able to successfully
tease them apart into our usual recognized categories.
AUTHORS
Most of the contributions submitted to Progress come from fledgling
or relatively new writers. We regularly received and still do occasion
ally receive summary statements about self psychology submitted by
students eager to share their newfound knowledge. Rejection of such
often quite accurate and good reviews leads to the sort of hurt feelings
that remain stifled. However, older and more experienced authors seem
free to vent their anger at this insult of rejection. Suffice it to say that
the grandiosity that is required to write a paper is not easily put to rest
at any stage before publication, but it most easily turns to rage if not
immediately responded to positively.
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