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RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES BOOK SERIES
LEWIS ARON & ADRIENNE HARRIS
Series Editors
Vol. 36 Vol. 27
Bodies in Treatment: The Designed Self:
The Unspoken Dimension Psychoanalysis and Contemporary
Frances Sommer Anderson (ed.) Identities
Carlo Strenger
Vol. 35
Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: Vol. 26
A Relational Perspective for the Impossible Training:
Discipline’s Second Century A Relational View of Psychoanalytic
Brent Willock Education
Emanuel Berman
Vol. 34 Vol. 25
Relational Psychoanalysis, V. III: New Gender as Soft Assembly
Voices Adrienne Harris
Melanie Suchet, Adrienne Harris, & Lewis
Aron (eds.) Vol. 24
Minding Spirituality
Vol. 33 Randall Lehman Sorenson
Creating Bodies:
Vol. 23
Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive
September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds
Survival
Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Rosenthal, &
Katie Gentile
Daniel S. Schechter (eds.)
Vol. 32 Vol. 22
Getting From Here to There: Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
Analytic Love, Analytic Process Muriel Dimen
Sheldon Bach
Vol. 21
Vol. 31 Looking for Ground: Countertransference
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational and the Problem of Value in
World Psychoanalysis
Danielle Knafo & Kenneth Feiner Peter G. M. Carnochan
Vol. 30 Vol. 20
The Healer’s Bent: Relationality:
Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
Encounter Stephen A. Mitchell
James T. McLaughlin Vol. 19
Who is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the
Vol. 29
Dream?
Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors:
A Study of Psychic Presences
A Relational View
James S. Grotstein
Sebastiano Santostefano
Vol. 18
Vol. 28 Objects of Hope:
Relational Psychoanalysis, V. II: Exploring Possibility and Limit in
Innovation and Expansion Psychoanalysis
Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris (eds.) Steven H. Cooper
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LEWIS ARON & ADRIENNE HARRIS
Series Editors
Vol. 17 Vol. 8
The Reproduction of Evil: Unformulated Experience:
A Clinical and Cultural Perspective From Dissociation to Imagination in
Sue Grand Psychoanalysis
Donnel B. Stern
Vol. 16
Psychoanalytic Participation: Vol. 7
Action, Interaction, and Integration Soul on the Couch:
Kenneth A. Frank Spirituality, Religion, and Morality
in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Vol. 15 Charles Spezzano & Gerald J. Gargiulo
The Collapse of the Self and Its (eds.)
Therapeutic Restoration
Rochelle G. K. Kainer Vol. 6
The Therapist as a Person:
Vol. 14 Life Crises, Life Choices, Life Experiences,
Relational Psychoanalysis: and Their Effects on Treatment
The Emergence of a Tradition Barbara Gerson (ed.)
Stephen A. Mitchell & Lewis Aron (eds.)
Vol. 5
Vol. 13 Holding and Psychoanalysis:
Seduction, Surrender, and A Relational Perspective
Transformation: Joyce A. Slochower
Emotional Engagement in the Analytic
Process Vol. 4
Karen Maroda A Meeting of Minds:
Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
Vol. 12 Lewis Aron
Relational Perspectives on the Body
Vol. 3
Lewis Aron & Frances Sommer Anderson
The Analyst in the Inner City:
(eds.)
Race, Class, and Culture Through a
Vol. 11 Psychoanalytic Lens
Building Bridges: Neil Altman
Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
Vol. 2
Stuart A. Pizer
Affect in Psychoanalysis:
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Fairbairn, Then and Now Charles Spezzano
Neil J. Skolnick and David E. Scharff (eds.)
Vol. 1
Vol. 9 Conversing with Uncertainty:
Influence and Autonomy in Practicing Psychotherapy in a Hospital
Psychoanalysis Setting
Stephen A. Mitchell Rita Wiley McCleary
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Contents
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Foreword: Voyaging the Relational Sea Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xix
Editors’ Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxi
1 Psychoanalytic Engagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg
2 At Death’s Door: Therapists and Patients as Agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Irwin Z. Hoffman
3 The Analyst’s Secret Delinquencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Joyce Slochower
4 The Developmental Perspective in Relational Psychoanalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Stephen Seligman
5 Faces in Relation: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Beatrice Beebe
6 Impasse Recollected in Tranquility: Love, Dissociation, and Discipline
in the Analytic Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Stuart A. Pizer
7 Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love
Affair With Evil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Jody Messler Davies
8 Body Rhythms and the Unconscious: Expanding Clinical Attention
With the Polyrhythmic Weave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Steven Knoblauch
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9 Analytic Impasse and the Third: Clinical Implications of
Intersubjectivity Theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Lewis Aron
10 When the Frame Doesn’t Fit the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Anthony Bass
11 The Black Man and the Mermaid: Desire and Disruption in the
Analytic Relationship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Dianne Elise
12 Privacy, Reverie, and the Analyst’s Ethical Imagination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Steven H. Cooper
13 “Grown-Up” Words: An Interpersonal-Relational Perspective on
Unconscious Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Philip M. Bromberg
14 Leaning Into Termination: Finding a Good-Enough Ending . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Jill Salberg
15 “You Must Remember This”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Adrienne Harris
16 Partners in Thought: A Clinical Process Theory of Narrative. . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Donnel B. Stern
17 On Becoming a Psychoanalyst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Glen Gabbard and Thomas Ogden
18 Knowing Oneself From the Inside Out, Knowing Oneself From the
Outside In: The “Inner” and “Outer” Worlds and Their Link Through
Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Paul Wachtel
19 Principles of Improvisation: A Model of Therapeutic Play in Relational
Psychoanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Philip Ringstrom
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Subject Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Contributors
Lewis Aron, PhD, is the director of the New York University Postdoctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, cochair of the Sándor Ferenczi
Center at the New School for Social Research, and an honorary member of
the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. He was the founding
president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and
Psychotherapy (IARPP). Along with Adrienne Harris, he is the series editor
of the Relational Perspectives Book Series for Routledge and the author of
A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 1996).
Anthony Bass, PhD, is a faculty member and supervising analyst at the New
York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
and is also faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research. He is the president of the Steven Mitchell Center for
Relational Studies and the founding director of the International Association
for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the editor-in-chief of
Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Beatrice Beebe, PhD, is a clinical professor of psychology and psychiatry
in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She is
coauthor (with Frank Lachmann) of Infant Research and Adult Treatment
(Analytic Press, 2002).
Philip M. Bromberg, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst and faculty
member of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute and a clinical
professor of psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author of Standing in the Spaces:
Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation (Analytic Press, 1998)
and Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys (Analytic Press, 2006) as
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well as The Shadow of the Tsunami, expected to be released by Routledge
in late 2011.
Steven H. Cooper, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a supervising analyst and faculty at the
Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a clinical associate professor of
psychology at Harvard Medical School. A joint editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic
Dialogues, he is the author of Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and
Limit in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2000) and A Disturbance in the
Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement (Routledge,
2010). He has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jody Messler Davies, PhD, is a supervising analyst and past cochair of
the relational track for the New York University Postdoctoral Program
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is a supervisor at the National
Institute for the Psychotherapies. A coeditor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues,
she is the author of numerous psychoanalytic publications and coauthor
(with Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea) of Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood
Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Basic Books, 1994).
Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst at
the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute. She serves on the edito-
rial boards of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and the
International Forum of Psychoanalysis; she is also the author of The Intimate
Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction (W.W. Norton, 1992).
Dianne Elise, PhD, is a supervising analyst and faculty member of the
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and training analyst of the
International Psychoanalytic Association. She is associate editor of Studies in
Gender and Sexuality and has served on the editorial board of the Journal
of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Glen Gabbard, PhD, is the Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and
professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as well
as training and supervising analyst at the Houston/Galveston Psychoanalytic
Institute. From 2001 to 2007 he was joint editor-in-chief of the International
Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author or editor of 25 books, including
Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting (Aronson, 1977) and Boundaries and
Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis (Basic Books, 1995).
Adrienne Harris, PhD, is a clinical associate professor at the New York
University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and
associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and
Contributors ❚ xv
Sexuality. She is a series editor, along with Lewis Aron, of the Relational
Perspectives Book Series, and is author of Gender as Soft Assembly (Analytic
Press, 2005) and coeditor First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of
Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance (Routledge, 2010, with Steven
Botticelli).
Irwin Z. Hoffman, PhD, is a faculty member and supervising analyst at
the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and at the National Training Program
for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, lecturer in psychiatry at the University of
Illinois College of Medicine, and adjunct clinical professor at the New York
University Postgraduate Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He
is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, is corresponding edi-
tor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and has served on the board of the
International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a series of pub-
lications developing his “dialectical constructivist” point of view, including
his book Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical
Constructivist View (The Analytic Press, 1998). Dr. Hoffman is in private
practice in Chicago.
Steven Knoblauch, PhD, is a faculty member and supervisor at the New
York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York.
He is author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (Analytic Press,
2000) and coauthor of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and
Adult Treatment (Other Press, 2005) as well as The Return of the Embodied
Analyst: From Reich to Relationality (with John Sletvold), forthcoming from
Routledge.
Thomas Ogden, MD, is a supervising and personal analyst at the Psycho-
analytic Institute of Northern California and member of the Faculty of the
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. His books include Rediscovering
Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting
(Routledge, 2008); This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams
and Interrupted Cries (Routledge, 2005); and Reverie and Interpretation:
Sensing Something Human (Jason Aronson, 1997).
D. Orfanos, PhD, ABPP, is a clinic director at the New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also on the
board of directors of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and is
president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and
Psychotherapy. Dr. Orfanos is past president of the Division of Psychoanalysis
(39) of the American Psychological Association.
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Stuart A. Pizer, PhD, ABPP, is a founding member, faculty member,
former president, and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis, assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department
of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and visiting faculty member at the
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the Toronto Institute
for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. A past president of the International
Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, he is also an
associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and corresponding editor for
Contemporary Psychoanalysis as well as the author of Building Bridges: The
Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 1998).
Philip Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD, is a senior training and supervising ana-
lyst and faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in
Los Angeles, California. He is a member of the editorial boards of both the
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Psychoanalytic
Dialogues. He is also a member of the International Council of Self
Psychologists and on the board of directors of the International Association
of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Jill Salberg, PhD, is a faculty member and supervisor at the New York
University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis,
the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and the Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy. Her articles on Freud, gender, termination,
and Judaism and psychoanalysis have been published in Psychoanalytic
Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and she has chapters in The
Jewish World of Sigmund Freud (McFarland, 2010) and Answering a Question
with a Question: Judaism and Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Academic
Studies Press, 2010). She is a contributor to and editor of Good Enough
Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary
Relational Perspectives (Routledge, 2010).
Stephen Seligman, PhD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry in the Infant–
Parent Program at the University of California–San Francisco, training and
supervising analyst and faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and a faculty member
at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis. In addition, he is joint editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic
Dialogues.
Joyce Slochower, PhD, is a faculty member at the New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Steven
Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, the National Training Program of NIP,
and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is the author
Contributors ❚ xvii
of Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (Analytic Press,
1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (Analytic Press, 2006).
Donnel B. Stern, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst and faculty
member at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute and fac-
ulty and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A past editor of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, he is currently the editor of the Psychoanalysis in a New
Key book series for Routledge and author of two books, Unformulated
Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (Analytic
Press, 1997) and Partners in Thought: Working With Unformulated
Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment (Routledge, 2010).
Paul Wachtel, PhD, graduated from and is faculty at the New York
University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
and is presently Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the doctoral
program in clinical psychology at City College and the City University
New York Graduate Center. His books include Relational Theory and the
Practice of Psychotherapy (Guilford, 2007); Therapeutic Communication
(Guilford, 1993); Psychoanalysis, Behavioral Therapy, and the Relational
World (APA, 1997); and Inside the Session: What Really Happens in
Psychotherapy (APA, 2011).
