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