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The contributors to Explorations in Self Psychology, volume 19 of the Progress in Self Psychology series, 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?
List 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.
About the author
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.
Summary
The contributors to Explorations in Self Psychology, volume 19 of the Progress in Self Psychology series, wrestle with two interrelated questions at the nexus of contemporary discussions of technique. The responses to these questions
