Relational Psychoanalysis Volume 2 Innovation and Expansion 1st Edition by Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris 9780881634075 0881634077

Introduction

What Kind of Theory Is Relational Theory?

The Relational Tradition, Volume Two: Topics

References

Therapeutic Action

The Intimate Edge in Therapeutic Relatedness (1974)

Editors’ Introduction

The Intimate Edge in Therapeutic Relatedness*

I

II

III

References

Afterword

References

Holding Something Old and Something New* (1996)

Editors’ Introduction

Holding: Something Old and Something New

The Holding Metaphor in a Relational Context

The Evolution of the Holding Metaphor

A Relational Holding Model

Illusion and the Coconstructed Holding Metaphor

Holding and the Analyst’s Subjectivity

Holding as Enactment

The Limits of the Holding Metaphor

Holding and Collaborative Psychoanalytic Work

Illusion and the Holding Metaphor

References

Afterword

Old and New Objects in Fairbairnian and American Relational Theory (1998)

Editors’ Introduction

Old and New Objects in Fairbairnian and American Relational Theory1

Constructivism and the Continuum of New-Old Objects

Analysts’ Obstacles to Seeing Newness

Patient’s Inner Obstacles to Seeing Newness

Disclosure and the Continuum of New–Old Object

Holding the Psychic Future: Future Object and Self

References

Afterword

References

Why the Analyst Needs to Change Toward a Theory of Conflict, Negotiation, and Mutual Influence in the Therapeutic Process (1998)

Editors’ Introduction

Why the Analyst Needs to Change Toward a Theory of Conflict, Negotiation, and Mutual Influence in the Therapeutic Process*

Conflict as an Essential Constituent of Relating

The Adaptive Resistance to Influence in the Analytic Relationship

Nancy and the Analyst’s Newborn Child

Tanya: Paying to Be Cared About

How the Analytic Situation Heightens the Experience of Conflict and Deception

The Therapeutic Transference as a “Mimicry” of the Parent–Child Relationship

The Patient’s “Innate Skepticism”

Transference as an Adaptive Probe

Edward and His Analyst

Deepening Conflicts with the Analyst’s Identity

Implications

Projective Identification and Enactments

The Intrinsic Ambiguities of Empathy

“Throwing Away the Book,” Self-Interest, and the Process of Achieving “Authenticity”

Some Concluding Thoughts

References

Afterword

References

Show Some Emotion Completing the Cycle of Affective Communication (1999)

Editors’ Introduction

Show Some Emotion: Completing the Cycle of Affective Communication*

Psychoanalysis and Affective Theory

Written on the Body

Is Affect Inhibition Overvalued?

Emotion and Cognition

What Is Emotional Memory?

Affect, Alexithymia, and Trauma

Gender Differences

Clinical Implications

References

Afterword

References

Psychoanalytic Supervision The Intersubjective Development (2000)

Editors’ Introduction

Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Intersubjective Development*

Countertransference Cannot be Relegated to the Candidate’s Analysis

Supervision as a Crossroads of a Matrix of Object Relations

The Conflict-Generating Triadic Structure of the Analytic-Supervisory Situation

Difficulties in Supervision as a Topic of Supervisory Discourse

The Triad in the Context of Institutional Dynamics

The Boundaries Between Supervision and Analysis

Transitional Space Evolving in Supervision

A Broad Range of Options

References

Afterword

References

On Misreading and Misleading Patients Some Reflections on Communications, Miscommunications, and Countertransference Enactments (2001)

Editors’ Introduction

On Misreading and Misleading Patients: Some Reflections on Communications, Miscommunications, and Countertransference Enactments*

References

Afterword

Relational Perspectives on Development

Representation and Internalization in Infancy Three Principles of Salience (1994)

Editors’ Introduction

Representation and Internalization in Infancy: Three Principles of Salience*

Why Three Principles?

Self- and Object Representations Are Rooted in Interaction Structures

The Principles of Salience and Self- and Object Representations

The Principle of Ongoing Regulations

Ongoing Regulations: Integration of Mutual and Self-Regulation

The Principle of Disruption and Repair

The Principle of Heightened Affective Moments

Internalization and Interactive Regulation

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Afterword*

References

Mentalization and the Changing Aims of Child Psychoanalysis (1998)

Editors’ Introduction

Mentalization and the Changing Aims of Child Psychoanalysis*

A Widening Scope for Psychoanalysis?

Mentalization: A Protective Factor and a Focus of Psychotherapy

Self, Action, and the Body

Empirical Support

Enhancing Reflective Processes

Play Helps Children to Strengthen Impulse Control and Enhance Self-Regulation

Working in the Transference

Conclusion

References

Having a Mind of One’s Own and Holding the Other in Mind Commentary on Paper by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target* (1998)

Editors’ Introduction

Having a Mind of One’s Own and Holding the Other in Mind: Commentary on Paper by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target*

Therapeutic Efficacy

Reflective-Functioning

Fostering Reflective-Functioning

Transmission of Attachment Security and Its Relation to Reflective-Functioning

The Widening Scope of Child Psychoanalysis

References

The Two–Person Unconscious Intersubjective Dialogue, Enactive Relational Representation, and the Emergence of New Forms of Relational Organization (1999)

Editors’ Introduction

The Two–Person Unconscious: Intersubjective Dialogue, Enactive Relational Representation, and the Emergence of New Forms of Relational Organization*

Part 1: Developmental Origins of Enactive Relational Procedures

Part II: Enactive Relational Representation and the Process of Change

Conclusions

References

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Relationality

Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor (1993)

Editors’ Introduction

Psychoanalysis and Urban Poor*

The Theoretical Background of this Paper

The Case of Linda

Theoretical Perspectives

The Case of Nancy

Administrative Issues

References

Afterword

References

Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes (2001)

Editors’ Introduction

Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes*

Note 1. How to Talk About This: Anxiety and Disgust

Note 2. Pathology and Suffering, Shame and Pain

Note 3. What Is a Perversion?

Note 4. Accepting/Disowning the Perverse in the Normal

Note 5. Fixity and Flexibility

Note 6. Fetishism and the Paradigm Shift

Note 7. Relatedness, Aggression, and Social Control

Note 8. Shelter from the Storm?/Rabbit in a Briar Patch

References

Afterword

References

Race, Self-Disclosure, and “Forbidden Talk” Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice (1997)

Editors’ Introduction

Race, Self-Disclosure, and “Forbidden Talk’: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice*

Clinical Illustration

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Psychoanalytic Treatment

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice and Multicultural Perspectives

References

Afterword

References

More Life Centrality and Marginality in Human Development (2001)

Editors’ Introduction

More Life: Centrality and Marginality in Human Development*

The Invert, Reality, Centrality, and Determinism

The Queer, Association, Marginality, and Complexity

From Three Essays to Five Quasi-Axioms

References

Afterword

Affinity and Development

Developmental Models as Tools

References

Author Index

Subject Index