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Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress, Aner Govrin and Jon Mills bring together the most eminent and diverse psychoanalysts to reflect upon the evolution, vitality and richness of psychoanalysis today.
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About the Contributors Introduction
Aner Govrin and Jon Mills 1. Contemporary Freudian theory: perspectives on synthetic ego functions and the paradox of punishment fantasies
Stephen J. Miller 2. The most innovative ideas in psychoanalysis: a kleinian approach
Rachel B. Blass 3. Cultural complexes in the psyche of individuals and groups: revisioning analytical psychology from within
Thomas Singer 4. The subject in the age of world-formation (m
ondialisation): advances in Lacanian theory from the Québec Group
Jeffrey S. Librett 5. Existential psychoanalysis: the role of freedom in the clinical encounter
M. Guy Thompson6. Moving forward: new findings on the right brain and their implications for psychoanalysis
Allan N. Schore7. The impact of the interpersonal innovations on contemporary psychoanalysis
Irwin Hirsch8. Relational self-psychology: a contemporary self-psychological approach to the practice of psychoanalysis
Estelle Shane9. Relational psychoanalysis: origins, scope, and recent innovations
Steven Kuchuck10. Phenomenology speaks: from intersubjectivity to the ethical turn
Donna M. Orange11. Self-medication, anaclitic and introjective personality styles, drug of choice, and the treatment of people with substance use disorders: theoretical and clinical implications of the empirical research
William H. Gottdiener12. Bodies and screen relations: moving treatment from wishful thinking to informed decision-making
Gillian Isaacs Russell and Todd EssigAppendixIndex
About the author
Aner Govrin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the doctoral program Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics in the Department of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Author of many publications in psychoanalysis and ethics, he maintains a private practice in Tel Aviv and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is a faculty member in the postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University; is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto; and is the author of numerous works in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies. He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada.
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In Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress, Aner Govrin and Jon Mills bring together the most eminent and diverse psychoanalysts to reflect upon the evolution, vitality and richness of psychoanalysis today.
