Psychotherapy in the Wake of War

Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions

Bernd Huppertz

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780765709486
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions of psychoanalytic thinking comment on a selection of nine cases and suggest ways of managing these both technically and theoretically. They have a variety of theoretical structures and axioms in their minds, a range of understandings of the symptoms of patients and of which type of interventions to make. This is based on their own internal reflective processes, their trainings and their personal development within their particular 'schools' over time. These different approaches reflect the evolution and divergences of psychoanalytic thinking. Some of the writers write in the language of their school, while others have developed their own style. Still others show that there can be issues that arise in clinical work which cannot be easily and fully conceptualized within the confines of one single and particular theoretical orientation. Interesting convergences and divergences are demonstrated in the comments of the practitioners in this present book. Clinical experience may be approached in different ways, as the commentators say, and unexpected ideas thought previously to be incompatible may converge.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Cases and Commentaries
• The Cases
• The Case of Mrs. H
• The Case of Mr. A
• The Case of Mrs. C
• The Case of Mr. E
• The Case of Mr. G
• The Case of Mrs. I
• The Case of Mrs. J
• The Case of Mr. Z
• The Case of Mrs. T
• Freudian Commentaries
• Commentary on Mrs. I, Mr. A,and Mr. Z
• Commentary on Mr. A, Mrs. H,and Mr. E
• Commentary on Mr. A, Mrs. C,and Mrs. I
• Jungian Commentaries
• Commentary on Mrs. C, Mrs. H, and Mr. G
• Commentary on Mrs. H and Mr. E
• Commentary on Mr. G
• Kleinian Commentaries
• Commentary on Mr. G
• Commentary on Mrs. H and Mrs. T
• Commentary on Mr. A, Mrs. J,and Mrs. C
• Additional Psychoanalytic Schools
• An Anna-Freudian Commentary on Mrs. H
• A Winnicottian Commentary on Mr. Z and Mrs. T
• A Bionian/Kleinian Commentary on Mr. E, Mrs. H, and Mrs. J
• A Lacanian Commentary on Mrs. J
• The British Group of Independents Commentary on Mrs. H
• An Object Relations Psychoanalyst’s Commentary on Mrs. H, Mrs. C, and Mr. Z
• Ego Psychology, Developmental, and Attachment Theory: A Commentary on Mr. A, Mr. E, and Mr. G
• Self-Psychologists Commentary on Mrs. C
• A Relational Psychoanalyst’s Commentary on Mrs. I
• An Intersubjectivist Commentary on Mr. E and Mr. G
• A Relational Psychoanalyst and Trauma Theorist’s Commentary on Mrs. H
• Conclusion and Further Reflections
• Index
• About the Editor