Joseph Lichtenberg

A Developmentalist's Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy

The Selected Works of Joseph Lichtenberg

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings. Leading psychoanalyst Joseph D. Lichtenberg is one of the most experienced and best respected psychoanalysts working in the US at present. In A Developmentalist's Approach to research, theory, and therapy he provides the reader with an opportunity to track the development of his conceptions in three realms of psychoanalysis. * Infant studies and developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle * Theoretical contributions to self-psychology * Motivational clinical contributions Joseph Lichtenberg is a hugely influential name within US Psychoanalysis circles; this is the first collection of the seminal papers from his very long and distinguished career. Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138897731
• ISBN-10: 1138897736
• Artikelnr.: 57056071

Autorenporträt

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Clinical Contributions: The empathic mode of perception and alternative
vantage points for psychoanalytic work. Experience as a guide to
psychoanalytic theory and practice. Model scenes, motivation, and
personality. The significance of infant observational research for clinical
work with children, adolescents, and adults. Listening, understanding, and
interpreting: reflections on complexity. Creativity in the clinical
dialogue.
Infant Studies and a Developmentalist Perspective On the Life Cycle: The
challenge for psychoanalytic theory from neonate research. A clinician's
view of attachment theory and research. The oedipus complex in the 21st
century. Prince Hal's conflict, adolescent idealism, and buffoonery.
Attachment love, romantic love, lustful love, lust without love, and
transference love.
Theoretical contributions to self psychology and motivation: A theory of
motivational-functional systems as psychic structures. Thoughts on The
Analysis of the Self by Heinz Kohut. The development of the sense of self.
Revisions and elaborations of motivational systems theory.
The experience of continuity and self-sameness despite multiple
motivational states: An explanation by analogy