Self Psychology/Intersubjectivity Books

New and Published Books

1. The Abyss of Madness

   By George E. Atwood

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
2. World, Affectivity, Trauma

   Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis

   By Robert D. Stolorow

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective – intersubjective-systems theory – is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this...

   Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Change in Psychoanalysis

   An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship

   By Chris Jaenicke

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   In this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a lasting effect until the inevitability and depth of the analyst's involvement in the intersubjective...

   Published January 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Persons in Context

   The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Roger Frie, William J. Coburn

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   In contemporary forms of psychoanalysis, particularly intersubjective systems theory, the turn towards contextualism has permitted the development of new ways of thinking and practicing that have dispensed with the notion of isolated individuality. For many who embrace this "post-subjectivist" way...

   Published August 23rd 2010 by Routledge
5. Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems

   A New Look

   By Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, James L. Fosshage

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which...

   Published August 23rd 2010 by Routledge
6. Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis

   Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision

   By Bernard Brandchaft, Shelley Doctors, Dorienne Sorter

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continually searching for a theoretical viewpoint that would satisfactorily explain the clinical...

   Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge
7. Progress in Self Psychology, V. 20

   Transformations in Self Psychology

   Edited by William J. Coburn

   Transformations in Self Psychology highlights the manner in which contemporary self psychology has become, in the words of series editor William Coburn, "a continuing series of revolutions within a revolution." Of special note are contributions that explore the bidirectional influences...

   Published October 25th 2004 by Routledge
8. Progress in Self Psychology, V. 19

   Explorations in Self Psychology

   Edited by Mark J. Gehrie

   The contributors to Explorations in Self Psychology, volume 19 of the Progress in Self Psychology series, wrestle with two interrelated questions at the nexus of contemporary discussions of technique: How "authentic" and relationally invested should the self psychologically informed analyst be, and...

   Published September 30th 2003 by Routledge
9. Progress in Self Psychology, V. 18

   Postmodern Self Psychology

   Edited by Arnold I. Goldberg

   Postmodern Self Psychology, the last volume of the Progress in Self Psychology series under the editorship of Arnold Goldberg, charts the path of self psychology into the postmodern era of psychoanalysis. It begins with Goldberg's thoughtful consideration of the several tributaries of...

   Published September 30th 2002 by Routledge
10. Progress in Self Psychology, V. 17

    The Narcissistic Patient Revisited

    Edited by Arnold I. Goldberg

    Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, The Narcissistic Patient Revisited, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade. Taken together,...

    Published October 31st 2001 by Routledge