Lewis Aron - Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2: Innovation and Expansion

Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume II Innovation and Expansion

RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES BOOK SERIES

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RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES BOOK SERIES

LEWIS ARON AND ADRIENNE HARRIS

Series Editors

Volume 1

Rita Wiley McCleary

Conversing with Uncertainty: Practicing Psychotherapy in a Hospital Setting

Volume 2

Charles Spezzano

Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis

Volume 3

Neil Altman

The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

Volume 4

Lewis Aron

A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis

Volume 5

Joyce A. Slochower

Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective

Volume 6

Barbara Gerson, ed.

The Therapist as a Person: Life Crises, Life Choices, Life Experiences, and Their Effects on Treatment

Volume 7

Charles Spezzano and Gerald J. Gargiulo, editors

Soul on the Couch: Spirituality, Religion, and Morality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volume 8

Donnel B. Stern

Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis

Volume 9

Stephen A. Mitchell

Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis

Volume 10

Neil J. Skolnick and David E. Scharff, editors

Fairbairn, Then and Now

Volume 11

Stuart A. Pizer

Building Bridges: Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis

Volume 12

Lewis Aron and Frances Sommer Anderson, editors

Relational Perspectives on the Body

Volume 13

Karen Maroda

Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation: Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process

Volume 14

Stephen A. Mitchell and Lewis Aron, editors

Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition

Volume 15

Rochelle G. K. Kainer

The Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration

Volume 16

Kenneth A. Frank

Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction, and Integration

Volume 17

Sue Grand

The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective

Volume 18

Steven Cooper

Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis

Volume 19

James S. Grolstein

Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences

Volume 20

Stephen A. Mitchell

Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity

Volume 21

Peter Carnochan

Looking for Ground: Countertransference, and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis

Volume 22

Muriel Dimen

Sexuality, Intimacy, Power

Volume 23

Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Rosenthal and Daniel S. Schechter, editors

September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds

Volume 24

Randall Lehmann Sorenson

Minding Spirituality

Volume 25

Adrienne Harris

Gender as Soft Assembly

Volume 26

Emanuel Berman

Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education

Volume 27

Carlo Strenger

The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities

Volume 28

Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris, editors

Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. 2: Innovalion and Expansion

Volume 29

Sebastiano Santostefano

Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors: A Relational View

Volume 30

James T. McLaughlin

The Healers Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter

Relational Psychoanalysis

Volume II

Innovation and Expansion

edited by

Lewis Aron

Adrienne Harris

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Contributors

Neil Altman, Ph.D.Coeditor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Associate Clinical Professor in the New York University Postdoctotal Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens (TAP, 1995) and coauthor of Relational Child Psychotherapy.

Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP (Editor)Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; President, Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA); Editorial Board, Studies in Gender and Sexuality; Series Coeditor, Relational Perspectives Book Series. Dr. Aron is the author of A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (TAP, 1996) and coeditor of Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition (TAP, 1999).

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D.Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University; Faculty, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is coauthor of Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy and Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions (TAP, 2002).

Emanuel Berman, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology, University of Haifa; Training Analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Institute; Visiting Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is editor of Essential Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis and of Hebrew translations of Freud, Ferenczi, Winnicott, Hanna Segal, and Ogden; International Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and author of Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education (TAP, 2004).

Susan W. Coates, Ph.D.Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; Teaching Faculty Member, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is a coeditor of September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds (TAP, 2003).

Steven Cooper, Ph.D.Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Faculty and Supervising Analyst, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Consulting Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Corresponding Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis (TAP, 2000).

Ken Corbett, Ph.D.Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is a member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.