Main description:

This book brings together an engaging study, using Emmanuel Ghent's collected papers, of theoretical and personal origins of the relational turn in psychoanalysis. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas have been hugely influential. However, he published sparingly and his papers are scattered across a range of sources. In this book, his key writings are reproduced, along with analyses and critiques by major contemporary psychoanalytic figures such as Adam Phillips, Jessica Benjamin, Seth Warren, Adrienne Harris and Barry Magrid.

This book provides a thorough examination of the key tenets of Ghent's thinking and illustrates the continued importance of his theoretical and clinical work for the next generation of psychoanalysts.

Contents:

Introduction Victoria Demos and Adrienne Harris

Part One: Core Papers and Commentaries

Emmanuel Ghent and the Origins of Relational Psychoanalysis
Anthony Bass

Credo - The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies (1989)

EMMANUEL GHENT

Surrender and Self-Discovery: Ghent's Reflections on the "Force of Growth" and What Impedes It
JESSICA BENJAMIN

Masochism, Submission, Surrender-Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender (1990)

EMMANUEL GHENT

Medicine Man(nie): Commentary on Emmanuel Ghent's "Paradox and Process"
MURIEL DIMEN

Paradox and Process (1992)

EMMANUEL GHENT

Introduction to E. Ghent, "Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation"
C. SETH WARREN

Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1995)

EMMANUEL GHENT

The Butterfly in the Consulting Room
BARRY MAGID

Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory (2002)

EMMANUEL GHENT

Part Two: Early Writings

Psyche and Eye (1950)
EMMANUEL GHENT

Countertransference: Its Reflection in the Process of Peer-Group Supervision
CHAIM F. SHATAN, BENJAMIN BRODY, EMMANUEL GHENT

Part Three: In Ghent's Words

Relations: Introduction to the First IARPP Conference (2001)
EMMANUEL GHENT

On Relational Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Dr. Emmanuel Ghent/Interviewer: Lewis Aron (2000)
LEWIS ARON

EMMANUEL GHENT

Part Four: Reminiscences

A Fragment of an Analysis with Mannie Ghent
RON BALAMUTH

Reminiscences of Mannie as a Clinical Supervisor
LEWIS ARON

The Years with Ghent
VICTORIA DEMOS

Impressions of Mannie
JESSICA BENJAMIN

Heart Melts Forward: Emmanuel Ghent (1925-2003)

ADRIENNE HARRIS

Afterward On What We Need: A Celebration of the Work of Emmanuel Ghent

Adam Phillips