Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken

Auteur

Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita at Hunter College, CUNY; faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Steven Mitchell Center, NTP, Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies & PINC. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective, Psychoanalytic Collisions, and is co-Editor (with Lew Aron and Sue Grand), of De-idealizing Relational Theory and Decentering Relational Theory.

Texte du rabat

What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factors-personal, social, political-inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifies-how, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.

Contenu

Part 1. Beyond Binaries: Holding in a Relational Context 1. Bridging the Gap: Developing a Relational Holding Model 2. Revisiting the maternal metaphor: A Long View 3. Resist this 4. Going too Far: Relational Heroines and Relational Excess 5. A few regrets Part 2. Pushing the Envelope: How Far is Too Far? 6. The analyst's secret delinquencies 7. Ghosts that haunt 8. Sequels Part 3. Beyond the Consulting Room: mourning, illusions, and actuality 9. Getting better all the time? 10. Out of the analytic shadow: on the dynamics of mourning and commemorative ritual 11. The Absent witness: mourning, virtually 12. "Factions are back" 13. Creating Inner Space: The Psychoanalytic Writer