Stephen A. Mitchell has been at the forefront of the broad
paradigmatic shift in contemporary psychoanalysis from the
traditional one-person model to a two-person, interactive,
relational perspective. In Influence and Autonomy in
Psychoanalysis, Mitchell provides a critical, comparative framework
for exploring the broad array of concepts newly developed for
understanding interactive processes between analysand and analyst.
Drawing on the broad traditions of Kleinian theory and
interpersonal psychoanalysis, as well as object relations and
progressive Freudian thought, he considers in depth the therapeutic
action of psychoanalysis, anachronistic ideals like anonymity and
neutrality, the nature of analytic knowledge and authority, and the
problems of gender and sexual orientation in the age of
postmodernism. The problem of influence guides his discussion of
these and other topics. How, Mitchell asks, can analytic clinicians
best protect the patient's autonomy and integrity in the context of
our growing appreciation of the enormous personal impact of the
analyst on the process?
Although Mitchell explores many facets of the complexity of the
psychoanalytic process, he presents his ideas in his customarily
lucid, jargon-free style, making this book appealing not only to
clinicians with various backgrounds and degrees of experience, but
also to lay readers interested in the achievements of, and
challenges before, contemporary psychoanalysis. A splendid effort
to relate parallel lines of theorizing and derivative changes in
clinical practice and informed by mature clinical judgment and
broad scholarship into the history of psychoanalytic ideas,
Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis takes a well-deserved
place alongside Mitchell's previous books. It is a brilliant
synthesis of converging insights that have transformed
psychoanalysis in our time, and a touchstone for enlightened
dialogue as psychoanalysis approaches the millennium.
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