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Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process:

A Dialectical-constructivist View
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Routledge, Jan 1, 2002 - Psychology - 344 pages
The psychoanalytic process is characterized by a complex weave of interrelated polarities:  transference and countertransference, repetition and new experience, enactment and interpretation, discipline and personal responsiveness, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal, construction and discovery.  In Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process, Irwin Z. Hoffman, through compelling clinical accounts, demonstrates the great therapeutic potential that resides in the analyst's struggle to achieve a balance within each of these dialectics.
    
According to Hoffman, the psychoanalytic modality implicates a dialectic tension between interpersonal influence and interpretive exploration, a tension in which noninterpretive and interpretive interactions continuously elicit one another.  It follows that Hoffman's "dialectical constructivism" highlights the intrinsic ambiguity of experience, an ambiguity that coexists with the irrefutable facts of  a person's life, including the fact of mortality.   The analytic situation promotes awareness of the freedom to shape one's life story within the constraints of given realities.  Hoffman deems it a special kind of crucible for the affirmation of worth and the construction of meaning in a highly uncertain world.  The analyst, in turn, emerges as a moral influence with an ironic kind of authority, one that is enhanced by the ritualized aspects of the analytic process even as it is subjected to critical scrutiny.
     
An intensely clinical work, Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Processforges a  new understanding of the curative possibilities that grow out of the tensions, the choices, and the constraints inhering in the intimate encounter of a psychoanalyst and a patient.  Compelling reading for all analysts and analytic therapists, it will also be powerfully informative for scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.
  

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Contents

The Dialectic of Meaning and Mortality
1
Death Anxiety and Adaptation
31
The Intimate and Ironic Authority
69
The Patient as Interpreter of
97
Toward a SocialConstructivist View
133
Conviction and Uncertainty
163
Expressive Participation
179
Therapeutic Action
193
Ritual and Spontaneity in
219
Constructing GoodEnough
245
References
275
Index
293
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About the author (2002)

Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a supervising analyst and faculty member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Hoffman is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and is an editorial reader for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He is coauthor, with Merton M. Gill, of Analysis of Transference, Vol. II: Studies of Nine Audio-Recorded Psychoanalytic Sessions (1982).

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TitleRitual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-constructivist View
AuthorIrwin Z. Hoffman
PublisherRoutledge, 2002
ISBN0881633623, 9780881633627
Length344 pages
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Psychology / Applied Psychology
Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis
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