Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer

Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer provides an overview of the theory and clinical applications of Intersubjective Self Psychology,focusing on its application to various clinical situations and diagnostic categories. It emphasizes the therapeutic situation as a bi-directional field of needed and dreaded selfobject experiences and offers a dual focus on the patient's strengths and repetitive transferences. The book is a valuable resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 07 May 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer delves into a comprehensive exploration of the theory and clinical applications of Intersubjective Self Psychology. This insightful text offers readers a deep understanding of one of the most clinically relevant analytic theories of the past half-century, thoroughly updated and enriched by recent advancements in the field of Intersubjectivity Theory.

Most importantly, the volume provides detailed chapters on the clinical treatment principles of Intersubjective Self Psychology, outlining their application to diverse clinical situations and diagnostic categories such as trauma, addiction, mourning, child therapy, couples treatment, sexuality, suicide, and severe pathology. This invaluable clinical tool serves as a valuable support and guide for everyday psychotherapeutic work.

Retaining Kohut's emphasis on the self and self-object experience, the book conceptualizes the therapeutic situation as a bi-directional field of both the patient's and the analyst's needed and dreaded self-object experiences. Through a rigorous application of the ISP model, each chapter sheds light on the intricate dynamic interplay within which self-experience and self-object experiences of the patient and the analyst/therapist unfold and are sustained.

The ISP perspective enables the therapist to focus on the patient's strengths, referred to as the Leading Edge, without neglecting the exploration of repetitive transferences or the Trailing Edge. This dual focus makes Intersubjective Self Psychology a powerful agent for transformation and growth.

Intersubjective Self Psychology presents a unified and comprehensive model of psychological life, offering specific and practical applications that are clinically informative and therapeutically powerful. This book serves as a highly valuable resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists alike, contributing to their understanding and expertise in the field.

Weight: 344g
Dimension: 158 x 233 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138354548