Intersubjective Self Psychology

A Primer

George Hagman, Harry Paul, Peter B. Zimmermann, George Hagman, Harry Paul, Peter B. Zimmermann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781138354531
• eBook ISBN: 9780429755941
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Santé mentale en psychologie

Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of Intersubjective Self Psychology and its clinical applications. Readers will gain an in depth understanding of one of the most clinically relevant analytic theories of the past half-century, fully updated and informed by recent discoveries and developments in the field of Intersubjectivity Theory. Most importantly, the volume provides detailed chapters on the clinical treatment principles of Intersubjective Self Psychology and their application to a variety of clinical situations and diagnostic categories such as trauma, addiction, mourning, child therapy, couples treatment, sexuality, suicide and sever pathology. This useful clinical tool will support and inform everyday psychotherapeutic work.

Retaining Kohut's emphasis on the self and selfobject experience, the book conceptualizes the therapeutic situation as a bi-directional field of needed and dreaded selfobject experiences of both patient and analyst. Through a rigorous application of the ISP model, each chapter sheds light on the complex dynamic field within which self-experience and selfobject experience of patient and analyst/therapist unfold and are sustained. The ISP perspective allows the therapist to focus on the patient's strengths, referred to as the Leading Edge, without neglecting work with the repetitive transferences, or Trailing Edge. This dual focus makes ISP a powerful agent for transformation and growth.

Intersubjective Self Psychology provides a unified and comprehensive model of psychological life with specific, practical applications that are clinically informative and therapeutically powerful. The book represents a highly useful resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists around the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• SECTION 1: The theory and practice of Intersubjective Self Psychology
• 1. An introduction to Intersubjective Self Psychology
• 2. Empathy in Intersubjective Self Psychology
• 3. Transference in Intersubjective Self Psychology
• 4. The therapeutic action of Intersubjective Self Psychology, Part 1
• 5. The therapeutic action of Intersubjective Self Psychology, Part 2: the case of Ricky
• 6. Working with the trailing edge: resolving the fear of repetition
• 7. Working with the leading edge: when the selfobject tie is intact
• SECTION 2: Clinical applications
• 8. Melancholia revisited: depression and its treatment from the perspective of Intersubjective Self Psychology
• 9. Addiction: an intersubjective self psychological perspective
• 10. Child treatment: working with the leading and trailing edge
• 11. Working with couples in Intersubjective Self Psychology
• 12. Sexuality and Intersubjective Self Psychology: what matters
• 13. A suicidal patient: gasping for air
• References
• Index