Freud's Technique Papers

Steven Ellman was Professor in the Graduate School of City University of New York (CUNY) where he was Director of the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology. He is now, after 30 years as a Professor at CUNY, Professor-Emeritus. He has published more than 70 papers in psychoanalysis, sleep and dreams the neurophysiology of motivation. He has published several books including 'Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective' and 'The Mind in Sleep' (with Antrobus). He has been President of IPTAR twice, Program Chair and he is training and supervising analyst at IPTAR. He is also Clinical Professor at New York University Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He was the first President of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS). CIPS is the national professional organization of the independent International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) societies of the United States. He is member of the IPA and was previously on the Executive Council of the IPA.

'Steven Ellman has written a rich and complex review of the Freudian clinical opus. What he gives us is this: an introduction to the issues in Freud's writings on technique in the areas of transeference, dreams, clinical practice and termination; an annotated commentary on the reprinted papers themselves; and a comparison and contrast to various major contemporary contributors. It is a brilliantly conceived format that works wonderfully to inform and challenge the reader.' - Fred Pine, PhD.'In a carefully thought out and critical presentation of Freud's papers on technique, the author traces the influence of Freud's seminal ideas as they appear in the writings of psychoanalysts today. This book represents one of the most comprehensive overviews of the evolution of psychoanalytic technique since the beginning of psychoanalysis.'- Jacob A. Arlow, M.D.'Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective is a didactic and expository tour de force. The volume presents eight of Freud's papers on the psychoanalytic method embedded in discussions of the origins and development of the core concepts and their impact on and reformulations in the contemporary technical perspectives of Brenner, Gill, and Kohut. Ellman's footnotes to Freud's papers are exceptionally lucid and clarifying. He has succeeded in explicating Freud's theory of technique in a manner comparable to what Rapaport achieved for Freud's theory of thought.'- Arnold D. Richards, M.D.'[This is] an original, ingenious, and very intelligent book that will be of great use to all students of Freud. It contains a careful and scholarly tracing of Freud's development as an investigator of the mind, as a clinician, and as a theorist of psychoanalytic therapy and technique...This book is a coherent, challenging, complex and yet highly intelligible series of accounts on a number of important intellectual as well as psychoanalytic subjects.'- Stephen Marcus, Ph.D.

• Commentary -- Preface -- The Early Years -- Freud's Early Ideas -- Transference as a Central Concept -- The Evolution of the Concept of Transference -- The Transference Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Dream Interpretation -- The Exceptional Position of the Dream in Freudian Thought -- Freud's Dream Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Clinical Practice -- Freud's Practical Suggestions -- Freud's Recommendations Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Freud's Final Views -- Freud on Analyzability, Termination, and Recovery of Pathogenic Memories -- Freud's Termination and Construction Papers -- Contemporary Views of Termination -- Contemporary Views of Reconstruction -- Integrating Freud's Legacy with Contemporary Views and Experience -- Freud's Actual Conduct of Treatment -- The Widening Scope of Psychoanalysis -- Freud's Positions -- Credits