Coleman Curtis Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-35670-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective contains reports of long-term treatments, including many dialogues and dreams, with commentaries following each one. Drawing from theories that have been developed since Freud, the analysts focus on problems in living as opposed to diagnoses and repressed sexual and aggressive urges. They also express their own feelings towards patients and even their own dreams.

The cases themselves include sexual abuse, a man whose father killed his mother, a change in sexual orientation, as well as those of depression, physical problems, and difficulties relating interpersonally, such as fear of rejection and rejecting help. Actual dialogues of sessions are featured, so that readers can see what takes place in psychoanalysis. The analysts here draw from theories of Sullivan, Fromm, Horney, and Fromm-Reichmann, Kohut, Winnicott, and more recently Levenson, Mitchell, Bromberg, Donnell Stern, and Aron, to name a few.

Most contemporary case reports come from short-term therapies and many rely on techniques of changing conscious cognitions and encouraging new behaviors. The treatments in this book, while often including such interventions, explore more in-depth processes that may be unconscious and related to transferential expectations from previous relationships, encouraging new experiences and not simply explanations.

Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective will be of great interest to interpersonal and relational psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in clinical practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman Curtis, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Rebecca C. Curtis

Chapter 1 Mark the Leper Robert Akeret

Commentary by Eric Dammann

Chapter 2 A Change in Sexual Orientation: A Case of Pseudo-Relatedness Nickolas Samstag

Commentary by Robert Watson

Chapter 3 The Curative Power of an Interpersonal Approach in the Treatment of a Patient Whose Father Killed His Mother Helen Quinones

Commentaries by Suzanne Little and John O’Leary

Chapter 4 Defying Destiny: Genetically Doomed? Olga Cheselka

Commentary by Daniel Gensler

Chapter 5 The Dance of Dissociation in Healing Trauma Heather MacIntosh

Commentary by Sue Kolod

Chapter 6 Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Chameleon in the Mirror Alyson Feit

Commentary by Elizabeth Hegeman

Chapter 7 Failure to Thrive: An Eye for the I, and an Ear for the Here Sigalit Levy

Commentary by Ira Moses

Chapter 8 Faced with Death: Death in the Countertransference Orsoly Hunyady

Commentary by Cory Chen

Chapter 9 A Lost, Depressed Woman: Love, Narcissus and Echo Carol Valentin

Commentary by David Braucher

Chapter 10 Rejection by a Boyfriend. From Idealizing Transference to "Real" Partner Jenny Kahn Kaufman

Commentary by Peter Kaufman

Chapter 11 Tolerating Vulnerability: First at Age Ten, Then at Fifty Evelyn Hartman

Commentary by Brent Willock

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Coleman Curtis, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University and Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, is author of Desire, Self, Mind and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis, editor of Self-Defeating Behaviors and the Relational Self, and co-editor of books on change, death, loneliness, taboos, identity, and failure resilience.