The Inward Eye

Psychoanalysts Reflect on Their Lives and Work

Laurie W. Raymond, Susan Rosbrow-Reich, Laurie W. Raymond, Susan Rosbrow-Reich

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781134895656
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Interpersonal Relations in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

A central, although unappreciated, dimension of psychoanalysis is the complex oral tradition through which analysts verbally reconstruct their lives and careers. The Inward Eye captures a significant portion of this tradition. In a series of interviews initially conceived as an aspect of their psychoanalytic education, Laurie Raymond and Susan Rosbrow-Reich skillfully elicit the fascinating personal stories of 16 senior analysts. The interviewees, who represent diverse theoretical traditions and cultural backgrounds, share a willingness to reflect candidly on their preanalytic years, their formative influences, their entry into psychoanalysis, and their relationships with mentors and colleagues. Out of this skillfully guided journey into the personal past emerges a vital human context for understanding the theoretical preferences and clinical styles of analysts as diverse as Arthur Valenstein, Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler, Jacob Arlow, Andre Green, Leo Stone, Leo and Anita Rangell, Edward Weinshel, Merton M. Gill, Albert Solnit, W. Clifford M. Scott, James McLaughlin, Rebecca Solomon, Joyce McDougall, M. Robert Gardner, and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel. Raymond and Rosbrow-Reich succeed in capturing the essential humanity of all their interview subjects, in showing how their subjects' lives outside the consulting room have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, the analytic identities they assume behind the couch. An engrossing read, wonderfully revelatory of its creative subjects, The Inward Eye is also an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic history.

INDEX

Acting out, communication and, 91

Action

agent of, 146

learning to play with, 332

role in speech, 301

unconscious, 140

Adolescent

individuation, 258

lack of social conscience, 252–255

Adolescent issues, reappearance of, 257–258

Adolescent period, reconstructions of, 256–257

Adolescent process, in analysis, 444–445

Affect, 27, 87, 356, 383

Affect states, intense, 354–355

Affective experiences, corrective, 151

Affectivity, patterns of, judging of, 69–70

Aggression

gender differences in, 103, 272–273

power and importance of, 119

Aggressive drive, 166

Aggressor, identification with, 41

Aloneness, fear of, 142

Ambiguity, 11

willingness to live with, 182

Analysand, See Patient

Analysis, See Psychoanalysis

Analysts, 93

acting out by, 373

adolescent regression of, 444–445

beginning, 305, 372, 379

candidate's identifying with, 359

as colleagues, parallel process among, 442–444

creativity of, 61–62

crying by, 332–333

drifting away from field, 155–156

“growthful” participation in analytic work, 314–315

identification with patient, 298

inattention and sleep, 184 298–299

inner experience of, 53–54

as instrument, 214

interventions by, 71

introspective experience of, 52

less known, 203–204

listening by, See Listening

lowered levels of functioning in, 188

making of mistakes by, 300

motives for becoming, 319, 320,321

need to analyze, 99

as new primary object, 356–357

non-MD, 319, 320

training of, 295

omniscience in, 108

paternal transferences, 361–363

patient's internal experience of, 223

personality of, 297

point of view, 351–352

qualities of, 29...