Independent psychoanalysis today

Independent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of technique; exploration of clinical concepts and demonstrations of ways of working by some of the most prominent Independent clinicians practicing today; finally, the evolution and enduring impact of Independent ideas and the influence of past Independents on present ways of working.

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I ORIENTATIONS; CHAPTER ONE Reflections on the evolution of Independent psychoanalytic thought; CHAPTER TWO An Independent theory of clinical technique; CHAPTER THREE The intersubjective matrix: influences on the Independents' growth from "object relations" to "subject relations"; CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalytic learning, training, teaching, and supervision in relation to the ego and especially the superego; PART II INTERVENTIONS; CHAPTER FIVE Incorporation of an invasive object.

CHAPTER SIX Boundary issues in the recovery from trauma and abuseCHAPTER SEVEN Endings and beginnings; CHAPTER EIGHT The Oedipus complex; CHAPTER NINE Embodied language; CHAPTER TEN The illusion of belief: a not so uncommon misbelief; CHAPTER ELEVEN The interplay of identifications: violence, hysteria, and the repudiation of femininity; CHAPTER TWELVE The use and misuse of transference interpretations; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The basic fault and the borderline psychotic transference; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Entertaining the body in mind: thoughts on incest, the body, sexuality, and the self.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN A severe form of breakdown in …