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The Embodied Analyst The Embodied Analyst brings together the history of embodied analysis found in the work of Freud and Reich and contemporary relational analysis, particularly as influenced by infant research. By integrating the “old” embodied and the “new” relational traditions, the book contributes to a new clinical perspective focusing on form and process rather than content and structure – the “how” rather than the “what” and the “why.” This perspective is characterized by a focus on movement, emotional interaction, and the therapist’s own bodily experience in the analytic encounter. Jon Sletvold presents a user-friendly approach to embodied experience, provid- ing the history, theory, training, and practice of embodied experience and expres- sion as a way of expanding clinical attention. Starting with a Spinozan view of the embodied mind, P art One: History of Embodied Psychoanalysis presents an overview of the history of the field in the works of Freud and Reich as well as a look at the Norwegian Character Analytic tradition. Part Two: Conceptual Frame- work and Clinical Guidelines explains how clinical interaction can be navigated based on the embodied concepts of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and reflexivity. Part Three: Embodied Training and Supervision presents innovative approaches to training in emotional communication inspired by the performing arts. The book ends with a consideration of the embodied analyst in the twenty-first-century con- sulting room. Capturing key aspects of a transitional movement in the development of psy- choanalysis and psychotherapy, The Embodied Analyst is ideal for those working and training in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Jon Sletvold is a Faculty, Training, and Supervising Analyst at the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He is former chair of the Psychotherapy Speciality Board of the Norwegian Psychological Association and is co-editor of two previous books. “An invaluable contribution, The Embodied Analyst bridges psychoanalytic cultures and countries, substantially and impressively advancing contemporary attempts to integrate non-verbal and body-based experience in relational psychoanalytic theory and practice. Sletvold enriches the relational literature in his discussion of these dimen- sions in the work of Freud and his often-excluded disciple, Wilhelm Reich. Further enhancement is offered in his discussion of Scandinavian analysts who were influ- enced by Reich, illuminating the often misunderstood and inaccurately represented historical roots of including the non-verbal dimension in treatment. Using evocative clinical material throughout, Sletvold also offers a model for embodied clinical train- ing and supervision.” – Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP. Editor, Bodies in Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension (2 008 ) “The Embodied Analyst is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the non- verbal and affective aspects of the analytic process. Within the psychoanalytic world, Wilhelm Reich is primarily recognized for the role that his seminal book on character analysis played within the development of the ego psychology tradition. By focusing more broadly, however, on his thinking about embodiment, Sletvold has managed to synthesize a lost aspect of Reich’s legacy with a contemporary relational perspective on transference and countertransference, as well as recent insights into the change pro- cess emerging from mother-infant developmental literature. The result of this synthe- sis is rich in both theoretical and technical yield. It’s also a fascinating and engaging read.” – Jeremy D. Safran, PhD, Past-President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School “Norwegian psychoanalysis has long understood that being human involved living in a body, something that many others have managed to overlook. In this groundbreaki ng book, Jon Sletvold brings a contemporary reading of the best of Wilhelm Reich’s theo- ries of character analysis to such diverse influences as affect theory, cognitive neurosci- ence, infancy research and an array of contemporary psychotherapies. He thus weaves a vivid, immediate and scholarly picture of how we live our histories and psychologies through our embodied subjectivity. This book will change every analyst’s practice for the better.” – Stephen Seligman, DMH, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Joint Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Training and Supervising Analyst, San F rancisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California “In this lucid, judicious, and important book, Jon Sletvold integrates material from con- temporary neuroscience, attachment and infant research, philosophy, and the history of psychoanalysis to give his reader an analyst for the twenty-first century. Through his read- ing of Freud’s body ego and affect theory, as well as Reich’s character analysis, Sletvold revisits the corporeal foundations of psychoanalytic thought and creates links among ideas that have often been perceived as incompatible. He further contextualizes these theories in light of more recent work on intersubjectivity in various fields and demonstrates their pragmatic importance with illuminating stories from his own work with patients and train- ing analysis. Finally, Sletvold’s consistently undogmatic, intellectually open, and compas- sionate explication of the implicit and explicit dynamics between analyst and patient is a pleasure to read.” – Siri Hustvedt Relational Perspectives Book Series Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris Series Co-Editors Steven Kuchuck & Eyal Rozmarin Associate Editors The Relational Perspectives Book Series (RPBS) publishes books that grow out of or contribute to the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. The term r elational 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 r ela- tional psychoanalysis grew and began to accrue to itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries – interpersonal psychoanalysis, object rela- tions theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, and elements of contem- porary 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 high- light that we are identifying a trend, a tendency within contemporary psycho- analysis, 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 Perspectives 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 and comparative and integrative approaches, and he promoted new voices across the generations. I ncluded in the Relational Perspectives Book Series are authors and works that come from within the relational tradition and extend and develop the tra- dition, as well as works that critique relational approaches or compare and contrast them with alternative points of view. The series includes our most dis- tinguished senior psychoanalysts along with younger contributors who bring fresh vision. Vol. 1 Vol. 9 Conversing with Uncertainty: Influence and Autonomy in Practicing Psychotherapy in a Psychoanalysis Hospital Setting Stephen A. Mitchell Rita Wiley McCleary Vol. 10 Vol. 2 Fairbairn, Then and Now Affect in Psychoanalysis: Neil J. Skolnick & David A Clinical Synthesis E. Scharff (eds.) Charles Spezzano Vol. 11 Vol. 3 Building Bridges: The Analyst in the Inner City: Negotiation of Paradox in Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Lens Stuart A. Pizer Neil Altman Vol. 12 Vol. 4 Relational Perspectives on A Meeting of Minds: the Body Mutuality in Psychoanalysis Lewis Aron & Frances Sommer Lewis Aron Anderson (eds.) Vol. 5 Vol. 13 Holding and Psychoanalysis: Seduction, Surrender, and A Relational Perspective Transformation: Joyce A. Slochower Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process Vol. 6 Karen Maroda The Therapist as a Person: Life Crises, Life Choices, Life Experi- Vol. 14 ences, and Their Effects on Treatment Relational Psychoanalysis: Barbara Gerson (ed.) The Emergence of a Tradition Stephen A. Mitchell & Vol. 7 Lewis Aron (eds.) Soul on the Couch: Spirituality, Religion, and Morality in Vol. 15 Contemporary Psychoanalysis The Collapse of the Self and Its Charles Spezzano & Gerald J. Therapeutic Restoration Gargiulo (eds.) Rochelle G. K. Kainer Vol. 8 Vol. 16 Unformulated Experience: Psychoanalytic Participation: From Dissociation to Imagination in Action, Interaction, and Psychoanalysis Integration Donnel B. Stern Kenneth A. Frank Vol. 17 Vol. 25 The Reproduction of Evil: Gender as Soft Assembly A Clinical and Cultural Perspective Adrienne Harris Sue Grand Vol. 26 Vol. 18 Impossible Training: Objects of Hope: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Exploring Possibility and Limit in Education Psychoanalysis Emanuel Berman Steven H. Cooper Vol. 27 Vol. 19 The Designed Self: Who is the Dreamer, Who Dreams Psychoanalysis and Contemporary the Dream? Identities A Study of Psychic Presences Carlo Strenger James S. Grotstein Vol. 28 Vol. 20 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. II: Relationality: Innovation and Expansion From Attachment to Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris (eds.) Intersubjectivity Stephen A. Mitchell Vol. 29 Child Therapy in the Great Vol. 21 Outdoors: Looking for Ground: A Relational View Countertransference and the Sebastiano Santostefano Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis Vol. 30 Peter G. M. Carnochan The Healer’s Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Vol. 22 Clinical Encounter Sexuality, Intimacy, Power James T. McLaughlin Muriel Dimen Vol. 31 Vol. 23 Unconscious Fantasies and September 11: the Relational World Trauma and Human Bonds Danielle Knafo & Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Kenneth Feiner Rosenthal, & Daniel S. Schechter (eds.) Vol. 32 Getting From Here to There: Vol. 24 Analytic Love, Analytic Minding Spirituality Process Randall Lehman Sorenson Sheldon Bach Vol. 33 Vol. 40 Creating Bodies: The Analyst in the Inner City, Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Second Edition: Survival Race, Class, and Culture through a Katie Gentile Psychoanalytic Lens Neil Altman Vol. 34 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. III: Vol. 41 New Voices The Hero in the Mirror: Melanie Suchet, Adrienne From Fear to Fortitude Harris, & Lewis Aron (eds.) Sue Grand Vol. 35 Vol. 42 Comparative-Integrative Sabert Basescu: Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers on Human Nature A Relational Perspective for the and Psychoanalysis Discipline’s Second George Goldstein & Helen Golden (eds.) Century Brent Willock Vol. 43 Invasive Objects: Vol. 36 Minds under Siege Bodies in Treatment: Paul Williams The Unspoken Dimension Frances Sommer Vol. 44 Anderson (ed.) Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Termina- Vol. 37 tions from Contemporary Relational Adolescent Identities: Perspectives A Collection of Readings Jill Salberg (ed.) Deborah Browning (ed.) Vol. 45 Vol. 38 First Do No Harm: Repair of the Soul: The Paradoxical Encounters of Metaphors of Transformation Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and in Jewish Mysticism and Resistance Psychoanalysis Adrienne Harris & Steven Karen E. Starr Botticelli (eds.) Vol. 39 Vol. 46 Dare to be Human: A Disturbance in the Field: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Essays in Transference- Journey Countertransference Engagement Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum Steven H. Cooper Vol. 47 Memory, Trauma, and Representation Uprooted Minds: in Psychotherapy Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Paul Renn Americas Nancy Caro Hollander Vol. 55 A Psychotherapy for the People: Vol. 48 Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis Toward Mutual Recognition: Lewis Aron & Karen Starr Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative Vol. 56 Marie T. Hoffman Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective Vol. 49 Joyce Slochower Understanding and Treating Dissocia- Vol. 57 tive Identity Disorder: The Play Within the Play: A Relational Approach The Enacted Dimension of Psycho- Elizabeth F. Howell analytic Process Gil Katz Vol. 50 With Culture in Mind: Vol. 58 Psychoanalytic Stories Traumatic Narcissism: Muriel Dimen (ed.) Relational Systems of Subjugation Daniel Shaw Vol. 51 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. IV: Vol. 59 Expansion of Theory Clinical Implications of the Psycho- Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris (eds.) analyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Vol. 52 Professional Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. V: Steven Kuchuck (ed.) Evolution of Process Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris (eds.) Vol. 60 The Origins of Attachment: Vol. 53 Infant Research and Adult Individualizing Gender and Treatment Sexuality: Beatrice Beebe & Frank M. Lachmann Theory and Practice Nancy Chodorow Vol. 61 The Embodied Analyst: Vol. 54 From Freud and Reich to The Silent Past and the Relationality Invisible Present: Jon Sletvold This page intentionally left blank The Embodied Analyst From Freud and Reich to relationality Jon Sletvold
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