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An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking,
feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and
identity to changes that are brought about in analytic
psychotherapy. Based on conceptualizing experience as it is lived
from infancy throughout life, this book identifies three major
pathways to development and applies Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and
Fosshage’s experience-based vision to psychoanalytic
psychotherapy. Using detailed clinical narratives and vignettes, as
well as organizational studies, the book takes up the distinction
between a person’s responding to a failure in achieving a goal
with disappointment and seeking an alternative path, or with
disillusion and a collapse in motivation. From the variety of
topics covered, the reader will get a broad overview of an
experience-based analytic conception of motivation begun with
Lichtenberg’s seven motivational systems. This title will be of
great interest to established psychoanalysts, as well as those
training in psychoanalysis and clinical counselling psychology
programs.
Narrative and Meaning examines the role of both in contemporary
psychoanalytic practice, bringing together a distinguished group of
contributors from across the intersubjective, relational, and
interpersonal schools of psychoanalytic thought. The contributions
propose that narratives or stories in a variety of non-verbal and
verbal forms are the foundation of mind, creativity, and the
clinical dialogue. From the beginning of life, human experience
gains expression through the integration of perception, cognition,
memory and affect into mini or complex narratives. This core
proposal is illustrated in chapters referencing creativity,
psychoanalytic process, gesture, and sensory-motor activity,
dreams, music, conflicting narratives in couples, imaginative
stories of adopted children, identity, and individuality. Including
a major revision in theory based upon an expanded definition of
narrative, this book is an essential read for any contemporary
psychoanalyst wishing to use narrative in their practice. Featuring
essential theory and a wealth of practical clinical material,
Narrative and Meaning will appeal greatly to both psychoanalysts
and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking,
feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and
identity to changes that are brought about in analytic
psychotherapy. Based on conceptualizing experience as it is lived
from infancy throughout life, this book identifies three major
pathways to development and applies Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and
Fosshage’s experience-based vision to psychoanalytic
psychotherapy. Using detailed clinical narratives and vignettes, as
well as organizational studies, the book takes up the distinction
between a person’s responding to a failure in achieving a goal
with disappointment and seeking an alternative path, or with
disillusion and a collapse in motivation. From the variety of
topics covered, the reader will get a broad overview of an
experience-based analytic conception of motivation begun with
Lichtenberg’s seven motivational systems. This title will be of
great interest to established psychoanalysts, as well as those
training in psychoanalysis and clinical counselling psychology
programs.
Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A
Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the
ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the
evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place
concurrently in verbal an nonverbal modes. Via the uniquely human
capacity for speech, the authors hold, intercommunication deepens
into a continuous process of listening to, sensing into, and
deciphering motivation-driven messages. The analytic exchange is
unique owing to a broad communicative repertoire that encompasses
all the permutations of day-to-day exchanges. It is the spirit of
inquiry that endows such communicative moments with an overarching
sense of purpose and thereby permits analysis to become an intimate
relationship decisively unlike any other. In elucidating the
special character of this relationship, the authors refine their
understanding of motivational systems theory by showing how
exploration, previously conceptualized as a discrete motivational
system, simultaneously infuses all the motivational systems with an
integrative dynamic that tends to a cohesive sense of self. Of
equal note is their discerning use of contemporary attachment
reseach, which provides convincing evidence of the link between
crucial relationships and communication. Replete with detailed case
studies that illustrate both the context and nature of specific
analytic inquiries, A Spirit of Inquiry presents a novel
perspective, sustained by empirical research, for integrating the
various communicative modalities that arise in any psychoanalytic
treatment. The result is a deepened understanding of subjectivity
and intersubjectivity in analytic relationships. Indeed, the book
is a compelling brief for the claim that subjectivity and
intersubjectivity, in their full complexity, can only be understood
through clinically relevant and scientifically credible theories of
motivation and communication.
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further
developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical
Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational
systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of
mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and
goals unfold. Motivation is described as a complex intersubjective
process that is cocreated in the developing individual embedded in
a matrix of relationships with others. Opening by placing
motivational systems theory within a contemporary dynamic systems
theory, Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage then respond to critics
of motivational systems theory. The authors present revisions to
their approach to the original five motivational systems, adding
two more: an affiliative and a caregiving motivational system. The
authors go on to suggest, using ideas garnered from complexity
theory and fractals, that motivational systems theory can help us
understand how a continuity of self can be maintained despite
near-constant fluctuations in interpersonal relations. They then
consider how the making of inferences, explicitly and implicitly,
is shaped by motivation, before applying their theory to an actual
human experience - love - to demonstrate the interplay of multiple
shifting motivations within an individual. Last, they present new
looks at the clinical applicability of their research. Grounded in
observational research of infants but relevant to psychoanalysis at
any stage of life, motivational systems theory has evolved via the
combined experiences of these three analysts for more than 20
years, and remains an important contribution to our understanding
of the driving forces behind human experience.
In this practical sequel to the same authors' "Self and
Motivational Systems" (TAP, 1992), Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and
Fosshage offer ten principles of technique to guide the clinical
exchange. These principles, which pertain equally to exploratory
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, integrate the findings of self
psychology with recent developmental research that has refined our
understanding of the self as a center of experience and motivation.
The ten principles of technique not only provide a valuable
framework for attending to a wide range of motivations, but lead to
basic revisions in the theory and technical management of affects,
transference, and dreams.
In this sequel to Lichtenberg's "Psychoanalysis and Motivation"
(TAP, 1989), the authors show how their revised theory of
motivation provides the foundation for a new approach to
psychoanalytic technique. The approach in "Self and Motivational
Systems"emphasizes a finely honed sensitivity to moment-to-moment
analytic exchanges and an appreciation of which motivational system
is dominant during that exchange. Throughout, the authors stress
the creative power of psychoanalysis as a joint effort shaped by
the intersubjective context of a particular analysand communicating
and interacting with a particular analyst. At the heart of the
analytic relationship is the analysand's expectation of evoking a
vitalizing selfobject experience from the analyst and the analyst's
expectation, in turn, of evoking a selfobject experience of
efficacy from his or her work with the analysand.
Narrative and Meaning examines the role of both in contemporary
psychoanalytic practice, bringing together a distinguished group of
contributors from across the intersubjective, relational, and
interpersonal schools of psychoanalytic thought. The contributions
propose that narratives or stories in a variety of non-verbal and
verbal forms are the foundation of mind, creativity, and the
clinical dialogue. From the beginning of life, human experience
gains expression through the integration of perception, cognition,
memory and affect into mini or complex narratives. This core
proposal is illustrated in chapters referencing creativity,
psychoanalytic process, gesture, and sensory-motor activity,
dreams, music, conflicting narratives in couples, imaginative
stories of adopted children, identity, and individuality. Including
a major revision in theory based upon an expanded definition of
narrative, this book is an essential read for any contemporary
psychoanalyst wishing to use narrative in their practice. Featuring
essential theory and a wealth of practical clinical material,
Narrative and Meaning will appeal greatly to both psychoanalysts
and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
In this sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation (TAP,
1989), the authors show how their revised theory of motivation
provides the foundation for a new approach to psychoanalytic
technique. The approach in Self and Motivational Systemsemphasizes
a finely honed sensitivity to moment-to-moment analytic exchanges
and an appreciation of which motivational system is dominant during
that exchange. Throughout, the authors stress the creative power of
psychoanalysis as a joint effort shaped by the intersubjective
context of a particular analysand communicating and interacting
with a particular analyst. At the heart of the analytic
relationship is the analysand's expectation of evoking a vitalizing
selfobject experience from the analyst and the analyst's
expectation, in turn, of evoking a selfobject experience of
efficacy from his or her work with the analysand.
Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A
Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the
ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the
evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place
concurrently in verbal an nonverbal modes. Via the uniquely human
capacity for speech, the authors hold, intercommunication deepens
into a continuous process of listening to, sensing into, and
deciphering motivation-driven messages. The analytic exchange is
unique owing to a broad communicative repertoire that encompasses
all the permutations of day-to-day exchanges. It is the spirit of
inquiry that endows such communicative moments with an overarching
sense of purpose and thereby permits analysis to become an intimate
relationship decisively unlike any other.
In elucidating the special character of this relationship, the
authors refine their understanding of motivational systems theory
by showing how exploration, previously conceptualized as a discrete
motivational system, simultaneously infuses all the motivational
systems with an integrative dynamic that tends to a cohesive sense
of self. Of equal note is their discerning use of contemporary
attachment reseach, which provides convincing evidence of the link
between crucial relationships and communication.
Replete with detailed case studies that illustrate both the context
and nature of specific analytic inquiries, A Spirit of Inquiry
presents a novel perspective, sustained by empirical research, for
integrating the various communicative modalities that arise in any
psychoanalytic treatment. The result is a deepened understanding of
subjectivity and intersubjectivity in analytic relationships.
Indeed, the book is a compelling brief for the claim that
subjectivity and intersubjectivity, in their full complexity, can
only be understood through clinically relevant and scientifically
credible theories of motivation and communication.
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