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De-Idealizing Relational Theory - A Critique From Within (Hardcover)
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De-Idealizing Relational Theory - A Critique From Within (Hardcover)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients,
this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts
haven't sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected
their own preferred approaches to systematic and critical
self-examination. Across theoretical divides, psychoanalytic
writers and clinicians have too often responded to criticism with
defensiveness rather than reflectivity. De-Idealizing Relational
Theory attempts to rectify this for the relational field. This book
is a first in the history of psychoanalysis; it takes internal
dissension and difference seriously rather than defensively. Rather
than saying that the other's reading of relational theory is wrong,
distorted, or a misrepresentation, this book is interested in
querying how theory lends itself to such characterizations. How
have psychoanalysts participated in conveying this portrayal to
their critics? Might this dissension illuminate blind-spot(s) and
highlight new areas of growth? It's a challenge to engage in
psychoanalytic self-critique. To do so requires that we move beyond
our own assumptions and deeply held beliefs about what moves the
treatment process and how we can best function within it. To step
aside from ourselves, to question the assumed, to take the
critiques of others seriously, demands more than an absence of
defensiveness. It requires that we step into the shoes of the
psychoanalytic Other and suspend not only our theories, but our
emotional investment in them. There are a range of ways in which
our authors took up that challenge. Some revisted the assumptions
that underlay early relational thinking and expanded their sources
(Greenberg & Aron). Some took up specific aspects of relational
technique and unpacked their roots and evolution (Mark, Cooper).
Some offered an expanded view of what constitutes relational theory
and technique (Seligman, Corbett, Grossmark). Some more directly
critiqued aspects of relational theory and technique (Berman,
Stern). And some took on a broader critique of relational theory or
technique (Layton, Slochower). Unsurprisingly, no single essay
examined the totality of relational thinking, its theoretical and
clinical implications. This task would be herculean both
practically and psychologically. We're all invested in aspects of
what we think and what we do; at best, we examine some, but never
all of our assumptions and ideas. We recognize, retrospectively,
how very challenging a task this was; it asked writers to engage in
what we might think of as a self-analysis of the
countertransference. Taken together these essays represent a
significant effort at self-critique and we are enormously proud of
it. Each chapter critically assesses and examines aspects of
relational theory and technique, considers its current state and
its relations to other psychoanalytic approaches. De-Idealizing
Relational Theory will appeal to all relational psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
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