Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2023.2230787
P. Kaufmann
“When Empathy Opens” proposes an integration of self-psychological and -relational models of therapeutic action. The author argues that consistently approaching patients through the practice of Kohut’s empathy evokes “a leading edge” transference that opens up the treatment relationship by orienting it toward facilitating the patient’s pursuit of what is adaptive and developmental for them. This orientation then can guide the overall treatment process. The author also maintains that this practice of Kohutian empathy contributes to the emergence of impasses outlined by Stephen Mitchell, so that they can be constructively addressed in a transformative way that opens the treatment relationship further, beyond a self-object tie, so it becomes more fluid and multi-faceted. Winnicott’s “leading edge” ideas about destruction and survival and breakdown supplement this self-relational integrative model.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2023.2230778
K. Frank
A member of the Journal’s founding editorial group and co-founder of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) reflects on his experience with Psychoanalytic Perspectives during the Journal’s early days and assesses the Journal’s achievements and status. In addition, he offers his thoughts and hopes for its future.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2023.2230781
R. Sopher
The Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives during the Covid era reflects on her time in the world of analytic journals as the outside world was changing, noticing an editorial tendency to retract and become more insular during traumatic times. She urges psychoanalysts and others among us who are involved in the vital task of curating what psychoanalytic literature is ultimately published to intentionally move past the bounds of their inner circles to engage more fully with those outside, to move past known worlds, and to take up the mantle of engagement with grand themes of history and trauma in expanded psychoanalytic communities and with the world at large.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2023.2230783
Jill Choder-Goldman
In this reflective piece, the author looks back on a decade of work on Global Perspectives, the annual section of Psychoanalytic Perspectives in which she publishes in-depth interviews with psychoanalysts from around the world in an effort to explore the influence of culture, politics, and socio-economic aspects of a country and their effects on training, theory development, clinical technique and psychoanalytic practice in general.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2023.2230780
Hillary Grill
On the 20th anniversary of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, we celebrate its achievements. Perspectives has been a leader in developing psychoanalytic writing that crosses over between creativity, the capacity for multiplicity, and strong analytic writing. Encouraging play in the third space of psychoanalytic writing, Perspectives captures and sculpts the multiplicity and free associative creativity of our variegated clinical experiences into scholarly stories that speak to the psychoanalytic community.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2023.2230799
Allison Katz
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2023.2174752
J. Fosshage, S. Berck, Charles Finlon, N. Glassman, Jonathan Raffes
Following a schematic history of the evolving concept of transference with a focus on the more recently emergent organizing model, we delineate and further integrate relevant empirical findings and theoretical contributions of other scientific discourses, namely, cognitive science, infant and attachment research, social cognition research, biological sciences, and systems theory. Conceptualizing mind, and more particularly transference, as principally organizing activity involving perceptions, affects, motives, meanings and verbal and sensorial symbolic encoding and processing better captures the mind’s complex functioning on implicit and explicit levels within relational systems. Lastly, we elucidate important clinical implications, addressing some of the now outmoded “default” technical assumptions.
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