Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts

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Developing psychoanalytic credos, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent’s original Credo essay, 27 psychoanalysts were asked to write their credos and/or their psychoanalytic journey. This book represents a multi-theoretical and multi-generational grouping, trained at different institutes, during different eras (grouped by decades 1960-2000) and across cultures. They are drawn from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary Freudians and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don’t easily fit categorization. This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Page Note Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction First Psychoanalytic Credo Notes References Section 1: 1960s Chapter 1: My Journey Chapter 2: My Journey: Haydée Faimberg Interviewed by and in conversation with Graciela V. Consoli and Ezequiel A. Jaroslavsky Ezequiel A. Jaroslavsky (EAJ): Haydée Faimberg (HF): Graciela V. Consoli (GVC): CODA References Section II: 1970s Chapter 3: What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road References Chapter 4: What is theory? I II III IV V VI Chapter 5: My Psychoanalytic Journey Note Chapter 6: An Autobiographical Fragment References Chapter 7: Credo: Psychoanalysis as a Wisdom Tradition Personal Background Family Influences Educational Influences Clinical Influences Credo Psychoanalysis as a Wisdom Tradition Emotional Immersion Intuition/Subjectivity/Empathy Respect Honesty References Chapter 8: Becoming the Analysts That We Turn Out to Be Note References Section III: 1980s Chapter 9: Credo: Mutuality and Asymmetry Family Relational Community Exploring the Subjectivity of the Patient and the Analyst Family Being a Patient Self-disclosure Notes Chapter 10: Credo: The Sufferings of the World References Chapter 11: Credo: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis What Do I Mean by Play and Finding Play? Some Forms of Playing in Psychoanalytic Work Coda References Chapter 12: Credo References Chapter 13: Reflections on the Way I Practice Psychoanalysis References Chapter 14: Toward a Humanistic Psychoanalysis References Chapter 15: Becoming and Being a Psychoanalyst: Credo as Ongoing Journey Training and Influences Notes References Chapter 16: Against the Grain: On Challenging Assumptions, Bridging Theories, Practicing Self-Critique, Exposing Underbellies, and Doing the Right Thing Holding and Analytic Bracketing False Dichotomies The Ideal and the Actual Credo: Personal Reflections Notes References Section IV: 1990s Chapter 17: Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents References Chapter 18: Credo: So Our Lives Glide On The Social Frame Mental Freedom Playing Notes References Chapter 19: Peasants, Fields, and Expanding Horizons in Psychoanalysis References Chapter 20: Analytic Eroticism The Erotics of Development The Clinical Relationship as an Analytic Field Bringing erotic life to the analytic field Concluding reflections References Chapter 21: Credo quia absurdum References Chapter 22: Working It Out: Development, Politics, Multidisciplinarity A Personal Backstory Building Bridges: Strengthening Traditional Insights with New Knowledge Notes References Chapter 23: Credo: In Search of Transformation References Section V: 2000s Chapter 24: On Truthlessness—Or, All in the Game 1 2 3 4 5 6 Notes References Chapter 25: My Psychoanalytic Search for Freedom: Do we need it twice? Note References Chapter 26: The Risk of Analysis Note References Chapter 27: Credo: Relationality and the Collective—A Psychoanalytic Journey in Context Education and Professional Affiliation Family and Subjectivity Formative Influences in Relationality Contemporary Thoughts on the Nature of Psychic Pain References Index