Joseph D. Lichtenberg - A Developmentalists Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy: Selected Works of Joseph Lichtenberg

A Developmentalists Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy

Leading psychoanalyst Joseph D. Lichtenberg is one of the most experienced and best respected psychoanalysts working in the US at present. In A Developmentalists Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy he provides the reader with an opportunity to track the development of his conceptions in three realms of psychoanalysis.

Infant studies and developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle

Theoretical contributions to self psychology

Motivational clinical contributions

Joseph D. Lichtenberg is a hugely influential name within US psychoanalysis circles; this is the first collection of the seminal papers from his very long and distinguished career.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

World Library of Mental Health series

The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings.

For the first time ever the work of each contributor is presented in a single volume so readers can follow the themes andprogress of their work and identify the contributions made to, and the development of, the fields themselves.

Each book in the series features a specially written introduction by the contributor giving an overview of his career, contextualizing his selection within the development of the field, and showing how his own thinking developed over time.

Rationality and PluralismThe selected works of Windy Dryden
By Windy Dryden

Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis The selected works of Jeremy Holmes
By Jeremy Holmes

The Price of Love The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes
By Colin Murray Parkes

Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics The selected works of Andrew Samuels
By Andrew Samuels

Towards a Radical Redefinition of Psychology The selected works of Miller Mair

Edited by David Winter and Nick Reed

Living Archetypes The selected works of Anthony Stevens
By Anthony Stevens

Soul: Treatment and Recovery The selected works of Murray Stein
By Murray Stein

A Developmentalists Approach to Research, Theory, and TherapyThe selected works of Joseph D. Lichtenberg
By Joseph D. Lichtenberg

Among the remarkable qualities of Joseph Lichtenberg are his sparkling, youthful curiosity coupled with his profound acquaintance with the world of psychoanalysis. But his inquisitiveness and explorations do not end there, but extend to the larger world of literature, art, and creativity. In this collection of his papers he takes the reader on a guided tour of his psychoanalytic and creative life from his early interests in Freud and ego psychology through his acquaintance with Kohut and self psychology to his discovery of the importance of infant research, intersubjectivity, and his proposal of the seven motivational systems. Along the way, from his own unique, insightful perspective he offers a fresh look at the Oedipus Complex, sensuality and sexuality, early development, and therapeutic action. In his chapter on the creativity of Eugene ONeill, Henry James, and Ludwig van Beethoven, he says about the latter that he remastered the present, reabsorbed the past and provided the key to the future. The same can be said about Joseph Lichtenberg.

Frank M. Lachmann, PhD, Founding Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York

What a wonderful gift it is for the student of psychoanalysis at any level to have at his or her disposal this selection of Joseph Lichtenbergs original publications, handpicked by Lichtenberg himself! Lichtenbergs rather intimidating range of contributions, and his equally intimidating encyclopedic knowledge of the field, is now comfortably contained and accessible to the reader. The volume comprises a selection of essays divided into three sections, the first concerning infant studies, the second concerning theoretical contributions to self psychology and motivation, and the third devoted to clinical contributions. The book as a whole is a course in psychoanalysis from the scholarly perspective of Joseph Lichtenberg himself.

Estelle Shane, PhD, Training Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles

A feature of Lichtenbergs work that I particularly appreciate is the phenomenological emphasis that has characterized its trajectory. Whether seeking to integrate infancy research into psychoanalytic thought or formulating the motivational systems that configure psychological life, Lichtenbergs penetrating focus is always on the experience-nearon relationally-embedded organizations of emotional experience, eschewing reified metapsychological entities. The present volume gives us a rich sampling of these important and clinically valuable contributions.

Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, author, World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2011)

This book is the work of a master! Joseph Lichtenbergs capacity to absorb, integrate, and illuminate an extraordinary thematic range within the clinical, theoretical, and historical vicissitudes of the psychoanalytic terrain is legendary. Drawing upon his own personal narrative, scholarly journey, and the refined sensitivity in his observations the authors breadth of scope and recognition of subtleties in meaning and relevance offer the reader an informative, original, as well as challenging view in the wide-ranging and significant dimensions of psychoanalytic study. Containing historical, literary, musical, as well as developmental and psychological references, this is a most engaging book from which one can learn a great deal.

Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East Visiting Faculty, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center

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