Books in the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series series

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - philosophical, developmental, biological, and neuroscientific - this title addresses the tension between individuality and the emergence of contextualism as a mode of psychoanalytic theory and practice, providing insights into the role and place of individuality in and out of the clinical setting.

Making use of relational systems theory, this book shows that experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by the regulatory processes of everyday life such as feeling, knowing, forming categories, making decisions, using language, creating narratives, sensing time, remembering, forgetting, and fantasizing.

Containing 10 chapters, this book expatiates on the craft of exploratory psychotherapy as it pertains to patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. Each chapter formulates a different guideline for technique.

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

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

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.