Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis: An IntegrationThere are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the entire body of psychoanalytic though have become staggering. In Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell weaves strands from the principal relational-model traditions (interpersonal psychoanalysis, British school object-relations theories, self psychology, and existential psychoanalysis) into a comprehensive approach to many of the knottiest problems and controversies in theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis. |
Contents
The Relational Matrix | 17 |
Drive and the Relational Matrix | 41 |
Sexuality | 63 |
Drive Theory and the Metaphor of the Beast | 67 |
Sex without Drive Theory | 94 |
Infantilism | 123 |
The Metaphor of the Baby | 127 |
Clinical Implications of the Developmental Tilt | 151 |
The Wings of Icarus | 179 |
A Delicate Balance The Clinical Play of Illusion | 204 |
Continuity and Change | 235 |
The Problem of the Will | 239 |
Penelopes Loom Psychopathology and the Analytic Process | 271 |
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Narcissism | 173 |