Intimate Attachments: Toward a New Self PsychologyOffering new ways of thinking about the intimate connections between analyst and patient, this lucid, clinically oriented volume presents an innovative model of psychoanalytic change. The authors integrate current findings in self psychology, attachment and infant research, and developmental systems theory to demonstrate the transformative power of interpersonal sharing between both members of the dyad. Interweaving conceptual material and careful guidelines for practice with case studies and clinical commentary, Intimate Attachments illuminates the power of the psychoanalytic process and affords readers a heightened level of creativity, freedom, and spontaneity in their therapeutic work. This volume will be of benefit to mental health practitioners and students interested in psychodynamic theory and treatment. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO Essential Features and Origins | 10 |
CHAPTER THREE The Two Dimensions of Intimacy | 43 |
CHAPTER FOUR Reconceptualizing Transference | 69 |
CHAPTER FIVE Relational Configurations and | 100 |
CHAPTER SIX Applying Our Model to the Clinical | 122 |
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