Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach

<em>Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach</em> fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective. In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical phenomena, including transference and resistance, conflict formation, therapeutic action, affective and self development, and borderline and psychotic states. As a consequence, the authors demonstrate that an intersubjective approach greatly facilitates empathic access to the patients subjective world and, in the same measure, greatly enhances the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis. <em>Psychoanalytic Treatment </em>is another step in the ongoing development of intersubjectivity theory, as born out in <em>Structures of Subjectivity </em>(1984), <em>Contexts of Being</em> (1992), and <em>Working Intersubjectively </em>(1997), all published by the Analytic Press