De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within

Read the introduction to this volume written by the editors

Self-examination and self-critique are the conduits to growth for psychoanalytic patients. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven’t sufficiently utilized their own methodology, or subjected their own preferred approaches, to systematic and critical self-examination. Across theoretical divides, psychoanalytic writers and clinicians have too often responded to criticism with defensiveness rather than ...
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De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within

On Relational Psychoanalysis

An Interview with Emmanuel Ghent

We dedicate this interview to the late Jeremy Safran, a distinguished professor in the New School of Social Research's Psychology Department and a senior editor of Public Seminar, in the week of his memorial service to honor his legacy.  Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas ...
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On Relational Psychoanalysis