Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics

375 Pages·2000·149.45 MB·English

by  Peter L. Rudnytsky

PSYCHOANALYTIC CONVERSATIONS
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tion with Peter L. Rudnytsky.
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PSYCHOANALYTIC CONVERSATIONS
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Interviews with Clinicians,
Commentators, and Critics
Peter L. Rudnytsky
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THE ANALYTIC PRESS
2000 Hillsdale, NJ London
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Rudnytsky, Peter L.
Psychoanalytic conversations interviews with clinicians, commentators,
and critics / Peter L. Rudnytsky.
p. ; cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-88163-328-3
1. Psychoanalytic interpretation- Case studies. 2. Psychoanalysts
Interviews. 3. Psychoanalysts- Psychology. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Psychoanalytic Therapy- Interview. 2. Psychoanalytic
Theory-I nterview.
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To Peter Greenleaf
"Each man I meet is my superior
in some way. In that I learn from him."
-Emerson
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Psychoanalyses / Feminisms (2000) (ed. with Andrew M. Gordon).
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Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch).
Freud and Forbidden Knowledge (1994) (ed. with Ellen Handler
Spitz).
Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D. W.
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The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of
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Approaches to the Literature of Sixteenth-Century England and
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Biographical Notes
The late MARY SALTER AINSWORTH taught psychology at The Johns
Hopkins University and the University of Virginia. She was the author
of Infancy in Uganda (1967) and Patterns of Attachment (1978), and con
tributed two chapters to the revised edition of John Bowlby's Child Care
and the Growth of Love (1965). Professor Ainsworth introduced the con
cept of the secure base and developed the Strange Situation Procedure,
an experimental method to test the strength and style of infants' attach
ments to their primary caregiver.
The late ENID BALINT was a training and supervising analyst in the
British Psycho-Analytical Society. Her papers are collected in Before I
Was I (1993).
JESSICA BENJAMIN is an analyst in private practice in New York City.
She is on the faculties of the New York University Postdoctoral Program
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the New School of Social
Research. She is the author of The Bonds of Love (1988), Like Subjects, Love
Objects (1995), and Shadow of the Other (1998).
PETER D. KRAMER is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Brown
University and has a private practice in Providence. He is the author of
Moments of Engagement (1989), Listening to Prozac (1993), and Should You
Leave? (1997). Dr. Kramer writes a monthly column for Psychiatric Times.
PETER LOMAS worked in general medicine and psychiatry before train
ing at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He practices in
Cambridge, England, and now prefers to call himself a psychotherapist.
He is the author of True and False Experience (1973), The Limits of
Interpretation (1987), Cultivating Intuition (1993), Personal Disorder and the
Family (1998), and The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life (1993), a revised edi
tion of The Case for a Personal Psychotherapy (1981).
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL is founding editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues,
a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White
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VIII. Biographical Notes
Institute, and on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory (1983, with Jay Greenberg),
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (1988), Hope and Dread in
Psychoanalysis (1993), Psychoanalysis and Beyond (1995, with Margaret J.
Black), Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis (1997), Relationality: From
Attachment to Intersubjectivity.
The late CHARLES RYCROFT, a Fellow of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists, practiced psychoanalysis in London. His books include
Imagination and Reality (1968), The Innocence of Dreams (1979), Psychoanalysis
and Beyond (1985), Viewpoints (1991), and A Critical Dictionary of
Psychoanalysis (1968), a revised edition of which appeared in 1995.
ROY SCHAFER is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia
University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and was
the first Freud Memorial Professor at University College, London. His
books include Aspects of Internalization (1968), A New Language for
Psychoanalysis (1976), The Analytic Attitude (1983), Retelling a Life (1992),
and Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis (1997).
FRANK J. SULLOWAY is a research scholar at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a former MacArthur Fellow. He is the author
of Freud, Biologist of the Mind (1979) and Born to Rebel (1996).
PETER J. SWALES, an erstwhile associate of the Rolling Stones, is an
independent scholar living in New York City. He is the author of influ
ential essays reappraising Freud's relationships with his wife, sister-in
law, and Wilhelm Fliess, tracing the sources of Freud's ideas, and
identifying several of his early patients.
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Contents
Preface XI
Acknowledgments XV
Enid Balint
The Broken Couch
Mary Salter Ainsworth 27
The Personal Origins of Attachment Theory
Peter Lomas 51
An Independent Streak
Charles Rycroft 63
A Science of the Mind
Peter D. Kramer 81
The Communication of Perspectives
Stephen A. Mitchell 101
Between Philosophy and Politics
Frank J. Sulloway 137
On Darwin and Freud
Roy Schafer 211
This 15 My Calling
Jessica Benjamin 233
Reparative Projects
Peter J. Swales 275
Sovereign unto Myself
Index 347
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