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Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective.  In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical phenomena, including transference and resistance, conflict formation, therapeutic action, affective and self development, and borderline and psychotic states.  As a consequence, the authors demonstrate that an intersubjective approach greatly facilitates empathic access to the patient's subjective world and, in the same measure, greatly enhances the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis.  Psychoanalytic Treatment is another step in the ongoing development of intersubjectivity theory, as born out in Structures of Subjectivity (1984), Contexts of Being (1992), and Working Intersubjectively (1997), all published by the Analytic Press ... Read more

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A Must Read for Analytic approaches to Treatment
I have been using this book to guide my own approach to treatment as well as a textbook for the students I supervise since it first came out. I have also read almost alll of Dr. Stolorow's other books, but I still find this one to be the most useful clinically. No other book has had such an impact upon my work as an analytically informed psychotherapist.Once you view the treatment from in intersubjective perspective, you can never see it the same way again.

Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach - YES
An excellent book.Well written with complex ideas clearly expressed.For anyone interested in understand the intersubjective philosophy and approach to psychotherapy this book is a must.

Psychoanalytic Treatment
Through some 15 years of collaborative work, Robert D. Stolorow, Bernard Brandchaft, and Gearge E. Atwood have developed the concept of an intersubjective field as the central explanatory construct guiding psychoanalytic theory, practice, and research. In this eminently practical book, the authors apply their intersubjective approach to a wide array of clinical issues that are critical to psychoanalytic therapy, including the analysis of transference, resistance, and psychic conflict, and the treatment of borderline and psychotic states.

The intersubjectivity field created by the interplay between the subjective worlds of patient and therapist, or of child and caregiver, is the organizing theme of Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach. The concept of a system of differently organized, interactive subjective worlds is shown to be invalable in illuminating both the vicissitudes of psychoanalytic therapy and the process of human psychological development. The authors postulate that clinical phenomena cannot be understood psychoanalytically apart from the intersubjective contexts in which they arise and recede.

Rich clinical illustrations amply bear out the authors' contention that an intersubjective perspective can significantly enlarge analysts' and therapists' capacity for sustained empathic inquiry and, in the same measure, enhance the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalytic treatment. Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach will not only be of great theoretical interest to, but have crucial clinical consequences for, all students, trainees, and practioners in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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This remarkable book is required reading for all mental professionals because it is the most comprehensive and articulate presentation about the recent changes in psychoanalytic theory concerning the inclusion of relational and interactional concepts. The authors' conception of a system of differently organized intersecting subjective worlds illuminates both the process of psychoanalytic therapy and the stages of psychic development. One of the central tenets of this innovative perspective is that clinical phenomena including all forms of psychopathology cannot be understood apart from the intersubjective contexts in which they take form. The intersubjective perspective provides a new methodological and epistemological stance that both calls for a radical modification of psychoanalytic theory and greatly enhances the effectiveness of psychoanalytic treatment. ... Read more

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The first of the three Analytic Press books in which Stolorow and Atwood (later with the collaboration of Bernard Brandchaft) reformulate psychoanalysis as a science of human intersubjectivity. Here the authors explore the "structures of subjectivity" that organize the subjective world, focusing on intersubjectivity in development, in pathogenesis, and in the therapeutic situation. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

a clear, readable intro
Thanks to what I've been taught, I began my studies in psychoanalytic intersubjective theory with the bias that the focus would be on between rather than within.This book avoids that error by placing even emphasis on what happens inside the patient and between patient and therapist.The authors blend self psychology, object relations, and other fields to lay out an elegant exploration of interacting subjectivities.

The conceptualization of psychopathology as either pathological structure OR missing psychic structure is particularly helpful and shows the common ground between self psychology (which tends to see things in terms of disintegration) and object relations (which at its worst regards the patient as a person full of toxic objects...a convenient notion when the therapy isn't going well!).

The authors also contend that selfobject transferences aren't so much a type of transference as a dimension that runs through all transferences--indeed, all relationships to varying degrees.

The book starts out with a lot of philosophy, in order to establish a context for perspectives presented later.Some of it was interesting, but most a rehash.

The only real problem I had with this book is that it wasn't long enough.So I guess I'll have to read more books by these authors. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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T003004



London : printed for Benjamin Stichall, 1751. 20p. ; 4° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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British Library

T005039

With a final leaf of advertisements.

London : printed for W. and J. Innys, 1723. 30,[2]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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T118112

Read before the Royal Society, February 27, 1794.

[London, 1794]. 52p.plates ; 4° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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T034524

With a half-title.

London : printed for William Innys, 1730. [4],iv,28p. ; 4° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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T089057



London : printed for T. Cadell, 1784. vi,265,[1]p. : ill. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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T165527

With a final errata leaf.

[London, 1796?]. [2],85,[3]p.,plates ; 4° ... Read more

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Contains conversations with 16 women writers, each accompanied by a biographical critical profile, a photograph of the writer and a facsimile manuscript page, which were originally published between 1960 and 1994. Subjects include Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Rebecca West and Nadine Gordimer. ... Read more

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In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pillars of psychoanalytic theory since they have already demonstrated the degree to which psychological theory is influenced by the subjective world of the psychological theorist, explored the various "structures of subjectivity" that organize the subjective world, and applied the intersubjective perspective to a broad array of clinical issues.

Beginning with an in-depth critique of the concept of the isolated individual mind, Stolorow and Atwood argue that this myth has long obstructed recognition of the intersubjective foundations of psychological life. The authors then proceed to a series of chapters that reframe, from the standpoint of intersubjectivity theory, basic assumptions of the psychoanalytic theory of mental life.  Concluding chapters on "varieties of therapeutic alliance" and "varieties of therapeutic impasse" further exemplify the ability of intersubjectivity theory to reorient the psychoanalytic therapist, thus providing fresh strategies for understanding and addressing the most challenging clinical contingencies.

Contexts of Being is the conceptual culmination of Stolorow and Atwood's earlier studies, giving them a forum to explain why the perspective of intersubjectivity cannot be reduced to a clinical sensibility that can be grafted onto existing psychoanalytic theory. Rather, the authors argue, the intersubjective perspective has methodological and epistemological implications that mandate a radical revision of all aspects of psychoanalytic thought. Not only a cogent elaboration of these implications, the volume is also an important first step in effecting the sweeping revision that follows from them. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more