Main description:

Developing psychoanalytic credos, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent's original Credo essay, 27 psychoanalysts were asked to write their credos and/or their psychoanalytic journey. This book represents a multi-theoretical and multi-generational grouping, trained at different institutes, during different eras (grouped by decades 1960-2000) and across cultures. They are drawn from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary Freudians and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don't easily fit categorization. This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey.

Contents:

Introduction
Jill Salberg

Section 1

1960's

1. My Journey*

Sheldon Bach, Ph.D.

2. My Journey: Haydee Faimberg Interviewed by and in conversation with

Graciela V. Consoli and Ezequiel A. Jaroslavsky*

Haydee Faimberg, M.D.

Section 2

1970's

3. What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road*

Ricardo Bernardi, M.D.

4. What is Theory?*

Christopher Bollas, Ph.D.

5. My Psychoanalytic Journey*

Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D.

6. An Autobiographical Fragment*

Jay Greenberg, Ph.D.

7. Credo: Psychoanalysis as a Wisdom Tradition

Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.

8. Becoming the Analysts That We Turn Out to Be

Michael Parsons, M.D.

Section 3:

1980's

9. Credo: Mutuality and Asymmetry*

Lewis Aron, Ph.D.

10. Credo: The Sufferings of the World

Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.

11. Credo: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis

Steven Cooper, Ph.D.

12. Credo

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

13. Reflections on the way I practice psychoanalysis*

Thomas Ogden, M.D.

14. Toward a Humanistic Psychoanalysis

Donna Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D.

15. Becoming and Being a Psychoanalyst: Credo As Ongoing Journey

Jill Salberg, Ph.D.

16. Against the Grain, On Challenging Assumptions, Bridging Theories, Practicing Self-Critique, Exposing Underbellies, and Doing the Right Thing

Joyce Slochower, Ph.D.

Section 4:

1990's

17. Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents

Mary Brady, Ph.D.

Chapter 18. Credo: So Our Lives Glide On*

Ken Corbett, Ph.D.

19. Peasants, Fields, and Expanding Horizons in Psychoanalysis

Elizabeth Corpt, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.

20. Analytic Eroticism

Dianne Elise, Ph.D.

21. Credo quia absurdum

Bruce Reis, Ph.D.

22. Working it Out: Development, Politics, Multidisciplinarity*

Stephen Seligman, D.M.H.

23. Credo: In Search of Transformation

Melanie Suchet, Ph.D.

Section 5:

2000's

24. On Truthlessness - or, All in the Game

Stephen Hartman, Ph.D.

25. My Psychoanalytic Search for Freedom

Ilana Laor, M.A.

26. The Risk of Analysis

Avgi Saketopoulou, Ph.D.

27. Credo: Relationality and the Collective -A Psychoanalytic Journey in Context

Chana Ullman, Ph.D.