What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factorspersonal, social, politicalinform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifieshow, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.
What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factorspersonal, social, politicalinform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifieshow, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.
Turning a critical eye on her own theory, Slochower reflects on how it, she, and the field have evolved and what remains unspoken. In so doing, she pushes us to do the same.
With its sharp focus on both theory and clinical work, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
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. Who needs theory when we can fight about politics?
13. Creating Inner Space: The Psychoanalytic Writer
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.
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