Innovations in Psychoanalysis

Aner Govrin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the doctoral program Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics in the Department of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Author of many publications in psychoanalysis and ethics, he maintains a private practice in Tel Aviv and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is a faculty member in the postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University; is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto; and is the author of numerous works in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies. He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada.

"An extraordinary feat: To encompass the dynamic, creatively unsettling and pluralist tensions between the schools of psychoanalysis and depth psychology, and also within each of the main schools in one volume. The Editors have briefed their authors perfectly, and the authors have risen to the occasion. It is a mine of information, both reliable and challenging. Could stimulate an international road show of conferences based on the book. The field needed this, and it will hugely benefit the widest possible range of practitioners, those in training, and those engaged with the area." - Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, UK; Former Chair, UK Counsel for Psychotherapy"This timely book will surprise people outside of psychoanalysis who think that nothing much has changed in it since the pioneering work of Freud, and it will broaden the perspectives of those within the field who have kept abreast of just one or another ‘school’. Psychoanalysis still remains the richest and most rewarding firmament of ideas about the lived life of the mind." - Mark Solms, Research Chair, IPA; Science Director, APsaA"Innovations in Psychoanalysis is an outstanding, singularly unique contribution to the psychoanalytic literature. Astute, scholarly, fresh, Govrin and Mills have brought together a most impressive and eclectic group of psychoanalytic voices. Here, in one volume, are the most important developments in psychoanalysis today." - Galit Atlas, PhD, NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis; author of The Enigma of Desire

• About the Contributors Introduction Aner Govrin and Jon Mills 1. Contemporary Freudian theory: perspectives on synthetic ego functions and the paradox of punishment fantasiesStephen J. Miller 2. The most innovative ideas in psychoanalysis: a kleinian approachRachel B. Blass 3. Cultural complexes in the psyche of individuals and groups: revisioning analytical psychology from withinThomas Singer 4. The subject in the age of world-formation (mondialisation): advances in Lacanian theory from the Québec GroupJeffrey S. Librett 5. Existential psychoanalysis: the role of freedom in the clinical encounter M. Guy Thompson6. Moving forward: new findings on the right brain and their implications for psychoanalysisAllan N. Schore7. The impact of the interpersonal innovations on contemporary psychoanalysisIrwin Hirsch8. Relational self-psychology: a contemporary self-psychological approach to the practice of psychoanalysisEstelle Shane9. Relational psychoanalysis: origins, scope, and recent innovationsSteven Kuchuck10. Phenomenology speaks: from intersubjectivity to the ethical turnDonna M. Orange11. Self-medication, anaclitic and introjective personality styles, drug of choice, and the treatment of people with substance use disorders: theoretical and clinical implications of the empirical researchWilliam H. Gottdiener12. Bodies and screen relations: moving treatment from wishful thinking to informed decision-makingGillian Isaacs Russell and Todd EssigAppendixIndex