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This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz
Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of
modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis. Separate
sections analyze self psychology alongside Freud and the first
generation of psychoanalytic dissidents; British object relations
theorists; and contemporary theorists like Kernberg, Mahler, Lacan,
and Masterson.
Psychoanalysis enjoyed an enormous popularity at one time, but has
recently fallen out of favor as new psychiatric medications have
dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in the
brain and neuroscience begins to dominate the theory as to the
cause and cure of mental illness. How do we distinguish between the
brain, the mind and the self? In his new book, Arnold Goldberg
approaches this question from a psychoanalytic perspective, and
examines how recent research findings can shed light on it. He
repositions psychoanalysis as an interpretive science that is a
different activity to most other sciences that are considered
empirical. Giving clear coverage of the various psychoanalytic
models of the mind and the self, Goldberg examines how these
theories fare against neuroscientific evidence, and what
implications these have for psychoanalytic clinical practice. The
Brain, the Mind and the Self: A psychoanalytic road map sets up
evidence-based, robust psychoanalytic theory and practice that will
give psychoanalysts, social workers and practicing psychologists a
valuable insight into the future of psychoanalysis. Arnold
Goldberg, M.D. was born and raised in Chicago and trained at the
University of Illinois, Michael Reese Hospital and the Institute
for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. He is recently retired from the
Cynthia Oudejans Harris MD chair, and Professor of Psychiatry at
Rush Medical Center.
Psychoanalysis enjoyed an enormous popularity at one time, but has
recently fallen out of favor as new psychiatric medications have
dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in the
brain and neuroscience begins to dominate the theory as to the
cause and cure of mental illness. How do we distinguish between the
brain, the mind and the self? In his new book, Arnold Goldberg
approaches this question from a psychoanalytic perspective, and
examines how recent research findings can shed light on it. He
repositions psychoanalysis as an interpretive science that is a
different activity to most other sciences that are considered
empirical. Giving clear coverage of the various psychoanalytic
models of the mind and the self, Goldberg examines how these
theories fare against neuroscientific evidence, and what
implications these have for psychoanalytic clinical practice. The
Brain, the Mind and the Self: A psychoanalytic road map sets up
evidence-based, robust psychoanalytic theory and practice that will
give psychoanalysts, social workers and practicing psychologists a
valuable insight into the future of psychoanalysis. Arnold
Goldberg, M.D. was born and raised in Chicago and trained at the
University of Illinois, Michael Reese Hospital and the Institute
for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. He is recently retired from the
Cynthia Oudejans Harris MD chair, and Professor of Psychiatry at
Rush Medical Center.
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a
therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the
patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the
patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of
frustration and vexation to clinicians, who aren't always eager to
discuss them. Taking the challenge head-on, Arnold Goldberg
proposes to demystify failure in an effort to determine its
essential meaning before determining its causes. Utilizing multiple
vignettes of failed cases, he offers a deconstruction and a
subsequent taxonomy of failure, delineating cases that go bad after
six months from cases that never get off the ground, mismatches
from impasses, failures of empathy from failures of inattention.
Commonalities in the experience of failure - conceived as less a
misapplication of technique than consequences of a co-constructed
yet fraught therapeutic relationship - begin to emerge for
scrutiny.
This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz
Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of
modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis. Separate
sections analyze self psychology alongside Freud and the first
generation of psychoanalytic dissidents; British object relations
theorists; and contemporary theorists like Kernberg, Mahler, Lacan,
and Masterson.
A work that goes well beyond dealing systematically with the theory
and treatment of difficult-to-treat patients suffering from
narcissistic behavior disorders. It is also a significant
contribution to the fundamentals of self psychology by a creative,
productive, and disciplined thinker.-Paul H. Ornstein, M.D. In this
exciting and uncommonly lucid volume, Goldberg presents his view
from self psychology in a tone of open engagement with other
leading analytic thinkers of past and present. As a result, the
reader feels more a participant in an exciting debate than an
observer in a dusty lecture hall. Those who have turned away from
early self psychology will be rewarded by this incisive application
of the best of self psychological thought used to enrich prior
psychoanalytic understanding.-Warren S. Poland, M.D. Clinicians
puzzling over the mysterious set of behaviors termed in our field
'perversions' will be delighted and relieved to discover this
newest book by Arnold Goldberg, M.D.In this volume, which is
arguably the most innovative extension of Kohut's clinical theory
published to date, Goldberg demonstrates that an understanding of
the concept of a split, divided self can be expanded and deepened
to facilitate a meliorative approach to these narcissistic behavior
disorders, illustrating his thesis with clear examples from his
practice. We predict that with the publication of this book, no one
will be able to treat, or even to think about, perversions without
accessing the author's powerful and persuasive formulations.-Morton
Shane, M.D., and Estelle Shane, Ph.D., Co-Presidents, Institute of
Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a
therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the
patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the
patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of
frustration and vexation to clinicians, who aren't always eager to
discuss them. Taking the challenge head-on, Arnold Goldberg
proposes to demystify failure in an effort to determine its
essential meaning before determining its causes. Utilizing multiple
vignettes of failed cases, he offers a deconstruction and a
subsequent taxonomy of failure, delineating cases that go bad after
six months from cases that never get off the ground, mismatches
from impasses, failures of empathy from failures of inattention.
Commonalities in the experience of failure - conceived as less a
misapplication of technique than consequences of a co-constructed
yet fraught therapeutic relationship - begin to emerge for
scrutiny.
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