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In the current professional climate, the calls for evidenced-based
treatment and the prestige accorded to this emblem, mental health
professionals are asking: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For
our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of
feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with
cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and
self-definition, that is, establishing a sense of legitimacy. The
three parts of this volume are directed toward the goal of
affirming a public and private sense of the legitimacy of
psychoanalysis, thereby shaping professional identity. Each
contribution adheres to the precepts of scientific inquiry, with a
commitment to affirming or disconfirming clinical propositions,
utilizing consensually agreed upon methods of observation, and
arriving at inferences that are persuasive and have the potential
to move the field forward. Beyond this, each part of this book
describes distinct methodologies that generate evidence pertaining
to public health policy, the persuasiveness and integrity of our
psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered in daily
clinical practice.
In our current professional climate, with calls for
'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded
to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence?
For our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of
feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with
cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and
self-definition, that is, establishing a sense of legitimacy. The
three parts of this volume are directed toward the goal of
affirming a public and private sense of the legitimacy of
psychoanalysis, thereby shaping professional identity. In each
contribution we adhere to the precepts of 'scientific inquiry',
with a commitment to affirming or disconfirming clinical
propositions, utilizing consensually agreed upon methods of
observation, and arriving at inferences that are persuasive and
have the potential to move the field forward. Beyond this, each
part of this book describes distinct methodologies that generate
evidence pertaining to public health policy, the persuasiveness and
integrity of our psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered
in daily clinical practice.
This work presents a vision of contemporary Freudian
psychoanalysis. The contributors show how modern Freudian analysts
have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on
whose shoulders they stand, including Freud, Winnicott, Loewald,
Ferenczi and others, and synthesized them into a new conception of
Freudian theory and technique.The opening chapters provide a
theoretical overview, demonstrating the evolution of Freudian
theory and ways in which different theories can be integrated. The
latter chapters, forming the bulk of the volume, translate that
frame into clinical process.Analysts confronted with clinical
dilemmas - for example, patients who cannot, for various reasons,
use interpretations productively - find ways to address these
dilemmas while deepening the analytic process. The reader will find
that a new synthesis has taken place in which the relationship with
the analyst is a crucial element in setting the stage for patients
to take a closer look into their inner world.
The publication of this volune represents the first in a planned
series of special publications on topics of major interest to
workers in the fields of psychiatry and psychology. The series will
be en titled The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry and
Psychology and is the outcome of a series of discussions among
several senior members of the Department of Psychiatry held about
four years ago. Included in this group, were Drs. Benjamin Kissin,
Henri Begleiter, Leonard Rosenblum, Herbert Pardes, Norbert
Freedman, and myself. The talks were initiated by Dr. Pardes, now
Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Colorado, and the resultant decision was t6 hold three day
symposia, hopefully of such excellence that the published papers of
each symposium would represent a significant con tribution to some
particular aspect of human psychology. This deci sion necessitated
the choice of suitable topics and distinguished speakers who would
present original work coordinated into an inte grated framework
based upon a selected topic.
This work presents a vision of contemporary Freudian
psychoanalysis. The contributors show how modern Freudian analysts
have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on
whose shoulders they stand, including Freud, Winnicott, Loewald,
Ferenczi, and others and synthesized them into a new conception of
Freudian theory and technique. The opening chapters provide a
theoretical overview, demonstrating the evolution of Freudian
theory and ways in which different theories can be integrated. The
latter chapters, forming the bulk of the volume, translate that
frame into clinical process. Analysts confronted with clinical
dilemmas for example, patients who cannot, for various reasons, use
interpretations productively find ways to address these dilemmas
while deepening the analytic process. The reader will find that a
new synthesis has taken place in which the relationship with the
analyst is a crucial element in setting the stage for patients to
take a closer look into their inner world. This detailed
examination of the clinical techniques that were implied but not
developed by past analysts has led to a new Freudian synthesis,
which is the unique contribution of this volume."
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