Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 14: The Emergence of a Tradition

537 Pages·1999·14.126 MB·English

by  Lewis Aron (editor), Stephen A. Mitchell (editor)

Relational Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of a Tradition
Relational Perspectives book Series
Volume 14

Relational Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of a Tradition
edited by
Stephen A. Mitchell
Lewis Aron
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For our friends3 students3 and colleagues
in the relational community.
And with appreciation to the three institutions
in which this community has evolved:
The Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the
American Psychological Association, Psychoanalytic Dialogues3
and the Relational Track of the New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Contributors
Lewis Aron, Ph.D. (Editor)—Director, New York University Postdoctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Coeditor, Psychoanalytic
Dialogues; Past-President, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American
Psychological Association.
George E. Atwood, Ph.D.—Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study
of Subjectivity, New York City; Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University.
Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.—Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of
the New School for Social Research; editorial board, Psychoanalytic Dialogues;
Associate Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D.—Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty,
William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychology,
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis;
Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D.—Faculty, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute;
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; and member of edi­
torial boards, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and Studies in Gender
and Sexuality.
Jody Messier Davies, Ph.D.—Supervising Analyst and Cochair, Relational Track,
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis;
Faculty and Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies; Coeditor,
Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Michael Eigen, Ph.D.—Senior Faculty and Control/Training Analyst, National
Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty and Supervisor, New York
University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, Ph.D.—Clinical Professor and Supervisor, Derner
Institute, Adelphi University; Faculty, Minnesota Institute for Contemporary
Psychoanalysis; Continuing Education Faculty, National Psychological Associa­
tion for Psychoanalysis.
vi 1 Contributors
Emmanuel Ghent, M.D.—Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Supervisor, New
York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis;
Faculty and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Associate Editor,
Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Jay R. Greenberg, Ph.D.—Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson
White Institute; Faculty and Supervising Analyst, New York University Post­
doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Editor, Contemporary
Psychoanalysis.
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.—Faculty and Supervisor, New York University Postdoctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic
Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D.—Supervising Analyst and Faculty, Chicago Center for
Psychoanalysis; Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine; edi­
torial boards, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.
Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D. (Editor)—Training and Supervising Analyst, William
Alanson White Institute; Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Coeditor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Thomas H. Ogden, M.D.—Co-director, the Center for the Advanced Study of
the Psychoses; Supervising and Training Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of
Northern California; Faculty, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.
Stuart A. Pizer, Ph.D.—Supervising Analyst and Faculty, Massachusetts Institute
for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San
Francisco; Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Contributing
Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Owen Renik, M.D.—Training and Supervising Analyst, San Francisco Psycho­
analytic Institute; Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Quarterly; Chairman, Program
Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association.
Charles Spezzano, Ph.D.—Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic
Institute of Northern California; Contributing Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D.—Supervising Analyst and Faculty, William Alanson
White Institute, Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis, Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy.
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D.—Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute
of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; Faculty, Institute for the Psycho­
analytic Study of Subjectivity; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of
Medicine.
Contents
Preface....................................................................................................ix
Michael Eigen
The Area of Faith in Winnicott,
Lacan and Bion (1981).....................................................................1
Irwin Z. Hoffman
The Patient as Interpreter of the
Analyst's Experience (1983)........................................................ 39
Donnel B. Stern
Unformulated Experience: From Familiar
Chaos to Creative Disorder (1983)............................................ 77
Nancy j. Chodorow
Toward a Relational Individualism:
The Mediation of Self Through Psychoanalysis (1986)............ 109
Jay R. Greenberg
Theoretical Models and the Analyst's Neutrality (1986)........... 131
Stephen A. Mitchell
The Wings of Icarus: Illusion and the
Problem of Narcissism (1986).................................................... 153