Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Bernd Huppertz, MD, is a physician, neurologist, and psychotherapist, and he has had a private practice in psychoanalysis in Germany since 1998. He has been widely published in the field of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychosomatic medicine."Review Quotes: This book . . . takes a most unusual and interesting approach writers from a very wide range of contemporary psychoanalytic schools comment on the same cases, drawn from a consistent context. Will our psychoanalytic approaches turn out to be refracted by this lens into a whole range of diversity, perhaps even contradiction? Or will we find out that plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose? That perhaps when a range of psychoanalysts think about a person, described crucially in a particular way by his or her analyst, they tend to converge on certain key concepts and ways of characterizing that person s core self and identity? Thanks to Dr. Huppertz, we shall see!--Mary Target, University College London"Table of Contents: Foreword: Mary Target, PhD, professor of psychoanalysis, University College London -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Cases and Commentaries -- 1. The Cases -- 1. The Case of Mrs. H -- 2. The Case of Mr. A -- 3. The Case of Mrs. C -- 4. The Case of Mr. E -- 5. The Case of Mr. G -- 6. The Case of Mrs. I -- 7. The Case of Mrs. J -- 8. The Case of Mr. Z -- 9. The Case of Mrs. T -- 2. Freudian Commentaries -- 10. Commentary on Mrs. I, Mr. A, and Mr. Z: Robert S. Wallerstein, MD -- 11. Commentary on Mr. A, Mrs. H, and Mr. E: Theodore J. Jacobs, MD -- 12. Commentary on Mr. A, Mrs. C, and Mrs. I: Susan Loden, MA, MSc -- 3. Jungian Commentaries -- 13. Commentary on Mrs. C, Mrs. H, and Mr. G: Alfred Ribi, MD -- 14. Commentary on Mrs. H and Mr. E: Pamela Donleavy, JD -- 15. Commentary on Mr. G: Grazina Gudaite, PhD -- 4. Kleinian Commentaries -- 16. Commentary on Mr. G: Penelope Garvey, BA, MPhil -- 17. Commentary on Mrs. H and Mrs. T: Marina Lia, LDs -- 18. Commentary on Mr. A, Mrs. J, and Mrs. C: Mariangela Mendes de Almeida, MA -- 5. Additional Psychoanalytic Schools -- 19. An Anna-Freudian Commentary on Mrs. H: Jack Novick, PhD, and Keny Kelly Novick -- 20. A Winnicottian Commentary on Mr. Z and Mrs. T: Angela Joyce, MSc -- 21. A Bionian/Kleinian Commentary on Mr. E, Mrs. H, and Mrs. J: Anne Alvarez, PhD, MACP -- 22. A Lacanian Commentary on Mrs. J: Myriam Perrin, PhD, MCU -- 23. The British Group of Independents Commentary on Mrs. H: Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD -- 24. An Object Relations Psychoanalyst's Commentary on Mrs. H, Mrs. C, and Mr. Z: David E. Scharff, MD -- 25. Ego Psychology, Developmental, and Attachment Theory: A Commentary on Mr. A, Mr. E, and Mr. G: Alexandra M. Harrison, MD -- 26. Self-Psychologists Commentary on Mrs. C: Peter Kaufmann, PhD and Sarah Mendelsohn, LCSW -- 27. A Relational Psychoanalyst's Commentary on Mrs. I: Neil Skolnick, PhD -- 28. An Intersubjectivist Commentary on Mr. E and Mr. G: Shelley R. Doctors, PhD -- 29. A Relational Psychoanalyst and Trauma Theorist's Commentary on Mrs. H: Ghislaine Bonlanger, PhD -- Conclusion and Further Reflections -- Index -- About the Editor. Publisher Marketing: Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions spanning developments for more than one hundred years may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions of psychoanalytic thinking comment on a selection of nine cases and suggest ways of managing these both technically and theoretically. They have a variety of theoretical structures and axioms in their minds, a range of understandings of the symptoms of patients and of which type of interventions to make. This is based on their own internal reflective processes, their trainings and their personal development within their particular schools over time. These different approaches reflect the evolution and divergences of psychoanalytic thinking. Some of the writers write in the language of their school, while others have developed their own style. Still others show that there can be issues that arise in clinical work which cannot be easily and fully conceptualized within the confines of one single and particular theoretical orientation. Interesting convergences and divergences are demonstrated in the comments of the practitioners in this present book. Clinical experience may be approached in different ways, as the commentators say, and unexpected ideas thought previously to be incompatible may converge."