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In place of the commonly accepted triadic division among psychoanalysis, exploratory psychotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy, Oremland proposes a new triad: psychoanalysis, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and interactive psychotherapy. Whereas psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy both strive systematically to "interpret" the therapeutic interaction as expressed in the transference, interactive psychotherapy "uses" the transference in selective ways to ameliorate psychic distress. Merton Gill's critical appreciation of Oremland's proposals amounts to an illuminating refinement of Gill's own position of these issues.
List of contents
1. Psychotherapy 2. Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy 3. Transference, Resistance, and Interpretation 4. Neutrality, Countertransference, and Abstinence 5. Phases in Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy 6. The Dream in Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy 7. Some Specific Interaction Situations 8. Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: A Double Helix 9. In Summary 10. Indirect Suggestion: A Response to Oremland's
Interpretation andInteraction,
Gill
About the author
Jerome D. Oremland, M.D., is Director, San Francisco Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco; and Chief of Psychiatry, San Francisco Children's Hospital and Medical Center. A faculty member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, he is the author of
Michelangelo's Sistine Cileing: A Psychoanalytic Study of Creativity (1979).
Merton M. Gill, M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, and at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.
Summary
In place of the commonly accepted triadic division among psychoanalysis, exploratory psychotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy, Oremland proposes a new triad: psychoanalysis, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and interactive psychotherapy. Whe
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"A careful and expert study of diverse change-inducing processes, this book differentiates interactive psychotherapy and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy from each other and from psychoanalysis. Current theoretical issues of empathy, interpretation, dreams, and transference are usefully addressed. The result is an outstandingly rich psychodynamic contribution."
- Mardi Horowitz, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
"In Interpretation and Interaction, Jerome Oremland cogently reexamines psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in terms of the relative contributions of the two variables - interpretation and interaction - that enter into all therapeutic endeavors. Oremland's conception and clinical examples of "psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy," which he radically differentiates from all types of "interactive psychotherapy," carve out a conceptual niche for a genre of psychotherapy that may be said to be fully analytic in relation to technique, therapeutic action, and treatment goals. Merton Gill's dialogue with Oremland adds rich texture to a work that is theoretically provocative and clinically consequential."
- Jerome A. Winer, M.D., Editor, The Annual of Psychoanalysis
"One of the most interesting and important questions in the whole area of psychological treatment and clinical practice today concerns the relationship of psychotherapy to psychoanalysis. As opportunities for formal, traditional psychoanalyses diminish, psychoanalytic theory and teaching become increasingly vital to the diverse and expanding practice of psychotherapy. But the issues and questions concerning the relationship between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are complex and difficult. Interpretation and Interaction makes a significant contribution to these crucial problems, and it does so in an unusual and refreshing way. Jerome Oremland, in a thoughful and systematic fashion, evaluates the essentials of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Oremland's contribution responds to, and critiques, the seminal work of Merton Gill, and readers of the book will enjoy the pleasure of a final chapter by Gill in which he responds to Oremland's presentation. The result is a lively and stimulating dialogue on some of the thorniest conceptual and technical problems facing all contemporary clinicians."
- Stephen A. Mitchell, Founder, Psychoanalytic Dialogues
"As a practitioner of both psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, I found Jerome Oremland's monograph admirably concise, challenging, and very relevant both to my clinical work and to my teaching."
- L. David Levi, M.D., Psychoanalytic Books
