"This book can only hint at the inexhaustible creativity of its author. To be sure, the reader will glimpse the variety of Richards' interest. Arnold Richards has fought for diversity of opinion-where hitherto isolated thinkers and practitioners from far flung analytic schools actually meet and exchange ideas without being distorted as imagined strangers." —Bonnie Litowitz Table Of Contents An Appreciation: Arnold D. Richards, M.D.—A Man for All Seasons Judith Logue Introduction: Arthur A. Lynch Section 1 Antecedents 1. Jacob A. Arlow (1912–2004) (with S.M. Goodman) 2. Symposium: The Clinical Value of the Concepts of Conflict and Compromise Formation 3. Technical Consequences of Object Relations Theory 4. “Afterword” from The Rangell Reader Section 2. Views on Clinical Data 5. The Narcissistic Patient 6. The Replacement Child 7. Isakower-Like Experience on the Couch: A Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Regressive Ego Phenomena 8. Self-Mutilation and Father-Daughter Section 3. Views on Clinical Theory 9. The Evolution Drive in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Reply to Gill (with J. Bachant and A.A. Lynch) 10. Commentary on Reisner’s reclaiming the metapsychology. With J. Bachant, and A.A. Lynch) 11. Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self (with E.A. Ticho) 12. Unconscious Fantasy: An Introduction to the Work of Jacob A. Arlow, M.D., and to the Symposium in His Honor 13. The Human Core. The Intrapsychic Base of Behavior 14. Practice and Precept in Psychoanalytic Technique 15. A Review of The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action, edited by Michael J. Diamond and Christopher Christian Section 4. Views and Reviews 16. The Revolutionary Ascetic. Evolution of a Political Type By Bruce Mazlish 17. Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult. A Developmental Approach By James F. Masterson 18. Forty-Two Lives in Treatment. A Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Robert S. Wallerstein 19. Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach by Robert D. Stolorow and Bernard Brandchaft. (A Review by Arnold D. Richards) Section 5. Conclusion 20. Politics and Paradigms About the Author: Arnold D. Richards is a practicing psychoanalyst, the former chairman of the Board of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, and the former editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. |