The Interpersonal Tradition

The origins of psychoanalytic subjectivity

Irwin Hirsch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415749510
• eBook ISBN: 9781317608592
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In The Interpersonal Tradition: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity, Irwin Hirsch offers an overview of psychoanalytic history and in particular the evolution of Interpersonal thinking, which has become central to much contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book of Hirsch's selected papers provides an overview of his work on the topic over a thirty year period (1984-2014), with a new introductory chapter and a brief updating prologue to each subsequent chapter.

Hirsch offers an original perspective on clinical psychoanalytic process, comparative psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory, particularly explicating the many ways in which Interpersonal thinking is absolutely central to contemporary theory and practice. Each chapter is filled with theoretical explication and clinical examples that illustrate the degree to which the idiosyncratic person of each psychoanalyst inevitably plays a significant role in both analytic praxis and analytic theorizing. Key to this perspective is the recognition that each unique individual analyst is an inherently subjective co-participant in all aspects of analytic process, underscoring the importance that analysts maintain an acute sensitivity to the participation of both parties in the transference-countertransference matrix. Overall, the book argues that the Interpersonal psychoanalytic tradition, more than any other, is responsible for the post-modern and Relational turn in contemporary psychoanalysis.

Based on a range of seminal papers that outline how the Interpersonal psychoanalytic tradition is integral to understanding much of contemporary psychoanalytic thought, this book will be essential reading for practitioners and students of psychoanalysis.

Index

• academic psychology 203
• acting out 14, 16, 18–19, 63, 65, 110, 160
• actualization of self 85
• adoption, ambivalences of 173
• adult aspects of self128–9, 142
• adult motivation and conflict 129
• adultery 198
• Alexander, F. 125
• aloneness, sense of 5, 26, 121, 132, 171
• American psychoanalysis 41, 100, 140, 184
  • features of 164, 182
• American Psychoanalytic Association 1, 6, 100
• analytic objectivity 12, 29, 109, 212
• analytic relationship 14, 26–7, 34–7, 61–3, 87, 111–12, 122
  • analysis of 170
  • democratization of 185
  • essential ingredient for 202
  • one-person psychology model of 168
  • two-person conception of 185
• analyzability 13
  • analytic versus non-analytic categories 14
  • clinical examples16–24
  • ego-strength and object relations 16
  • literature on14–15
• anger control172–3
• anxiety 7, 15–16, 22, 36–7, 81–6, 120–5, 131–2, 136, 149, 155, 197
• Aron, Lewis 2, 107, 111, 117–18, 135, 136, 140, 143, 182
  • intersubjective developmental concepts 135
  • mutuality, concept of 135
• attachment love 188, 196
• Atwood, G. 2, 119

• Beebe, Beatrice 1, 8, 128, 182
• behavior therapy204–5
• benign iatrogenic resistance 106, 111
• “bi-polar” disorder 209
• Bird, B. 102
• blank-screen model, for psychoanalysis26–7, 29, 36–7, 42–3, 101, 140–1, 185
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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: the Interpersonal tradition: the origins of psychoanalytic subjectivity
• Toward a more subjective view of analyzability
• Varying modes of analytic participation
• Countertransference enactments and some issues related to external factors in the analyst’s life
• Countertransference love and theoretical model
• Dissociation and the Interpersonal self
• The concept of enactment and theoretical convergence
• Further thoughts about Interpersonal and Relational perspectives: reply to Jay Frankel
• Reflections on clinical issues in the context of the national trauma of September 11
• Analysts’ observing-participation with theory
• The Interpersonal roots of Relational thinking
• Imperfect love, imperfect lives: making love, making sex, making moral judgments
• Emerging from the oppositional and the negative
• Index