Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques, and Their Appli
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Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques, and Their Appli

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques, and Their Appli

About this book

In this important book, esteemed psychoanalyst Otto F. Kernberg reviews some of the recent developments and controversies in psychoanalytic theory and technique.

Gathering together both previously published articles and extensive new material, Dr. Kernberg examines such issues as the new psychoanalytic views of homosexuality, bisexuality, and the influence of gender in the analytic relationship. He explores the application of psychoanalysis to non-clinical fields, including the problem of psychoanalytic research and its clinical implications, the validation of psychoanalytic interventions in the clinical process, and the challenges of psychoanalytic education. He shows how psychoanalysis can be helpful in addressing such cultural problems as socially sanctioned violence. And he asserts the continued relevance of object relations theory and its compatibility with Freud's dual drive theory.

Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., is director of the Personality Disorders Institute at New York-Presbyterian Hospital; professor of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College; and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is also the author of Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations; Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions; Love Relations: Normality and Pathology; and Severe Personality Disorders, all published by Yale University Press.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Part One. Theory and Applications
  4. 1. Freud’s Theories and Their Contemporary Variations
  5. 2. Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theories
  6. 3. The Concept of Drive in the Light of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theorizing
  7. 4. Unresolved Issues in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Homosexuality and Bisexuality
  8. 5. Mourning and Melancholia Revisited
  9. 6. Resistances to Research in Psychoanalysis
  10. 7. Authoritarianism, Culture, and Personality in Psychoanalytic Education
  11. 8. A Concerned Critique of Psychoanalytic Education
  12. 9. Some Proposed Complementary Solutions to the Problems of Psychoanalytic Education
  13. 10. Sanctioned Social Violence: A Psychoanalytic View
  14. 11. Some Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Prevention of Socially Sanctioned Violence
  15. Part Two. Technique
  16. 12. Listening in Psychoanalysis: The Importance of Not Understanding
  17. 13. The Analyst’s Authority in the Psychoanalytic Situation
  18. 14. Validation in the Clinical Process
  19. 15. The Interpretation of the Transference (with Particular Reference to Merton Gill’s Contribution)
  20. 16. The Influence of the Gender of Patient and Analyst on the Psychoanalytic Relationship
  21. 17. Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique
  22. 18. Recent Developments in the Technical Approaches of English-Language Psychoanalytic Schools
  23. References
  24. Index