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"The contributors to this volume 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 what role should self-disclosure play in the treatment process? The responses to these questions embrace the full range of clinical possibilities. S. Dudley and T. Walker argue that emphatically based interpretation precludes self-disclosure whereas M. Miller argues in favour of authentic self-expression against the self psychologist's frustrating attempt to ""decentre"" from frustration or anger. Consideration of the utility of a consistently empathetic stance continues with J. Weisel-Barth's clinical presentation and the discussions that it elicits about management of her patient's primary destructiveness. L. Lenoff's critical re-reading of Kohut's ""Examination of the Relationship Between Mode of Observation and Theory"" (1959) and J. Rieveschl and M. Cowan's ""Selfhood and the Dance of Empathy"" deepen still further a contemporary perspective on the nature (and advisability) of a consistently empathetic stance in the face of interactive and enactive treatment challenges. Other timely self-psychological explorations examine the twinship selfobject experience and homosexuality (Martinez); self-psychological work with adolescents (Smaller); and Neville Symington's theory of narcissism (M. Shoshani and B. Shoshani). J. Stern presents the case of Watt, ""Who was in doubt as to whether he was gay or straight and hoped that psychoanalysis would provide the answer"". A. Ornstein returns to the topic of concentration camp survivors in order to dispel the image of the survivor as permanently scarred and incapable of healthy functioning. Contributions to applied analysis explore topics as diverse as an exchange of dreams between John Adams and Benjamin Ruch; Mann's ""Death in Venice""; the films of Ingmar Bergman; psychotherapy of the elderly; and disabilities in the sensory-motor integration in children. This volume concludes with Constance Goldberg's candid and enlightening reminiscence of Heinz Kohut, ""a very complex man with whom to be in a relationship""."

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Author:   Mark J. Gehrie ,  Mark Gehrie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Analytic Press,U.S.
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9780881633733

ISBN 10:   0881633739
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   01 October 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part I: Theory.Dudley, Walker, ""To Be or Not To Be?"": The Question of Authenticity, Therapist Subjectivity, and the Role of Interpretive Moments in Treatment. Lenoff, Consequences of ""Empathy"": Rereading Kohut's (1959) ""Examination of the Relationship Between Mode of Observation and Theory."" Martinez, Twinship Selfobject Experience and Homosexuality. Miller, Empathy and Self Expression: Confessions of a Sometimes Angry Self Psychologist. Ornstein, Survival and Recovery: Psychoanalytic Reflections. Rieveschl, Cowan, Selfhood and the Dance of Empathy. Shoshani, Shoshani, Psychic Survival versus Psychic Freedom: Reflections on Symington's Theory of Narcissism. Part II: Clinical. Smaller, Working with Adolescents: A Time for ""Reconsideration."" Stern, A Case of Sexual (Dis-)Orientation with Thoughts on Sexuality, Sexual Orientation, and Psychoanalysis. Shane, Wiesel-Barth, Aron, & Stolorow, Panel: The Role of the Relationship in the Therapeutic Process. Part III: Applied.Childs, Death in Venice: A Selfobject Perspective on Thomas Mann's Homolimerence. Elson, John Adams and Benjamin Rush Exchange Dreams. Rass, Making Contact with the Perception World of a Child: Undetected Disabilities in Sensory Motor Integration and the Effects on the Development of Self-Esteem. Schulz, Tragic Man and Narcissistic Disturbance in the Films of Ingmar Bergman. Wada, The Applicability of Self Psychology to Psychotherapy with the Elderly: With Emphasis on Twinship Selfobject Needs and Empathy as a Mode of Observation. Part IV: Personal Memoir.Goldberg, A Personal and Professional Reminiscence of Heinz Kohut."

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Mark J Gehrie, Ph.D., is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institue for Psychoanalysis. He is the coeditor, with John Gedo, of Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis: Clinical Case Seminars (TAP, 1993) and author of numerous articles.

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