Books by Robert D. (Founding Faculty Member Stolorow

Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach 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 patient''s subjective world and, in the same measure, greatly enhances the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis.  Psychoanalytic Treatment is another step in the ongoing development of intersubjectivity theory, as born out in Structures of Subjectivity (1984), Contexts of Being (1992), and Working Intersubjectively (1997), all published by the Analytic Press

This work explains why the perspective of intersubjectivity cannot be reduced to a clinical sensibility that can be grafted onto existing psychoanalytic theory. It argues that the intersubjective perspective has implications that mandate a revision of all aspects of psychoanalytic thought.