Intersubjective Perspective

Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a core faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. George E. Atwood, Ph.D., is a core faculty member at the institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City, and professor of psychology at Rutgers University. Bernard Brandchaft, M.D., is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a core faculty member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.

The reader of The Intersubjective Perspective will gain a profound appreciation of the interplay, in therapy, between the therapist's and the patient's psychological worlds. He or she will also acquire an enhanced awareness of the richness and creativity of intersubjective theory.

• Part 1 I. IntersubjectivityChapter 2 The Intersubjective Context of Intrapsychic ExperienceChapter 3 Toward a Science of Human ExperienceChapter 4 Subjectivity and Self PsychologyPart 5 II Intersubjectivity and the Therapeutic ProcessChapter 6 The Nature and Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalytic InterpretationChapter 7 To Free the Spirit from Its CellChapter 8 Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity TheoryChapter 9 The Difficult PatientChapter 10 Aggression in the Psychoanalytic SituationChapter 11 Masochism and Its TreatmentChapter 12 CountertransferenceChapter 13 Converting Psychotherapy to PsychoanalysisPart 14 III Broader Implications of IntersubjectivityChapter 15 The Pursuit of Being in the Life and Thought of Jean-Paul SartreChapter 16 Countertransference, Empathy, and the Hermeneutical CircleChapter 17 Psychoanalysis, Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity