Meeting Of Minds

Description

In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique and therapeutic strategy. From his reappraisal of the concepts of interaction and enactment, to his examination of the issue of analyst self-disclosure, to his concluding remarks on the relational import of the analyst's ethics and values, Aron squarely accepts the clinical responsibilities attendant to a postmodern critique of psychoanalytic foundations.

Table of contents

The Relational Orientation - An Introduction; Relational Theory and Its Boundaries - One- and Two-Person Psychologies; The Patient's Experience of the Analyst's Subjectivity; Interpretation as Expression of the Analyst's Subjectivity; Aspects of Mutuality in Clinical Psychoanalysis; The Dialectics of Mutuality and Autonomy - The Origins of Relational Theory in the Contributions of Sandor Ferenczi and Otto Rank; Enactment, Interaction and Projective Identification - The Interpersonalization of Psychoanalysis; On Knowing and Being Known - Theoretical and Technical Considerations Regarding Self-Disclosure.