The love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today from what it was a century ago, when Freud was writing. Now Stephen A. Mitchell, a central figure in the modernization of psychoanlalysis, shows how the field is moving beyond the confines of Freudian drive theory to encompass the concerns of contemporary life. Table of Contents
The Analytic Situation
What Does the Patient Need? A Revolution Theory
What Does the Analyst Know? A Revolution in Metatheory
The Two Revolutions Together
Self In Psychoanalysis
Multiple Selves, Singular Self
True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity
Aggression and the Endangered Self
The Analytic Relationship
Wishes, Needs, and Interpersonal Negotiations
The Dialectics of Hope |
