Main description:

Independent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of technique; exploration of clinical concepts and demonstrations of ways of working by some of the most prominent Independent clinicians practicing today; finally, the evolution and enduring impact of Independent ideas and the influence of past Independents on present ways of working.

Contents:

Preface , Orientations , Reflections on the evolution of Independent psychoanalytic thought , An Independent theory of clinical technique , The intersubjective matrix: influences on the Independents' growth from "object relations" to "subject relations" , FOUR Psychoanalytic learning, training, teaching, and supervision in relation to the ego and especially the superego , Interventions , Incorporation of an invasive object , Boundary issues in the recovery from trauma and abuse , Endings and beginnings , The Oedipus complex , Embodied language , The illusion of belief: a not so uncommon misbelief , The interplay of identifications: violence, hysteria, and the repudiation of femininity , The use and misuse of transference interpretations , The basic fault and the borderline psychotic transference , Entertaining the body in mind: thoughts on incest, the body, sexuality, and the self , A severe form of breakdown in communication in the psychoanalysis of an ill adolescent