Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of Intersubjective Self Psychology and its clinical applications. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of one of the most clinically relevant analytic theories of the past half-century, fully updated and informed by recent discoveries and developments in the field of Intersubjectivity Theory. Most importantly, the volume provides detailed chapters on the clinical treatment principles of Intersubjective Self Psychology and their application to a variety of clinical situations and diagnostic categories.
Key Features
- Focus on trauma, addiction, mourning, child therapy, couples treatment, sexuality, suicide, and severe pathology.
- Conceptualizes the therapeutic situation as a bi-directional field of selfobject experiences of both patient and analyst.
- Emphasises the patient's strengths, referred to as the Leading Edge, while addressing repetitive transferences, or Trailing Edge.
- Provides a unified and comprehensive model of psychological life with specific, practical applications.
- Represents a highly useful resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists worldwide.
Additional Information
This useful clinical tool will support and inform everyday psychotherapeutic work. Through a rigorous application of the ISP model, each chapter sheds light on the complex dynamic field within which self-experience and selfobject experience of patient and analyst/therapist unfold and are sustained. This dual focus makes ISP a powerful agent for transformation and growth.
