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Contexts of Being - The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life (Paperback, Revised)
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Contexts of Being - The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
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In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in
a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984)
and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987-
with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a
rethinking of the foundational pillars of psychoanalytic theory
since they have already demonstrated the degree to which
psychological theory is influenced by the subjective world of the
psychological theorist, explored the various structures of
subjectivity that organize the subjective world, and applied the
intersubjective perspective to a broad array of clinical issues.
Beginning with an in-depth critique of the concept of the isolated
individual mind, Stolorow and Atwood argue that this myth has long
obstructed recognition of the intersubjective foundations of
psychological life. The authors then proceed to a series of
chapters that reframe, from the standpoint of intersubjectivity
theory, basic assumptions of the psychoanalytic theory of mental
life. Concluding chapters on varieties of therapeutic alliance and
varieties of therapeutic impasse further exemplify the ability of
intersubjectivity theory to reorient the psychoanalytic therapist,
thus providing fresh strategies for understanding and addressing
the most challenging clinical contingencies.
Contexts of Being is the conceptual culmination of Stolorow and
Atwood's earlier studies, giving them a forum to explain why the
perspective of intersubjectivity cannot be reduced to a clinical
sensibility that can be grafted onto existing psychoanalytic
theory. Rather, the authors argue, the intersubjective perspective
has methodological and epistemologicalimplications that mandate a
radical revision of all aspects of psychoanalytic thought. Not only
a cogent elaboration of these implications, the volume is also an
important first step in effecting the sweeping revision that
follows from them.
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