Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic
interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic …

I reflect on the interaction between the analyst's dedicated attention to the patient's internal
object relations and the analyst's self-reflective participation. Our stops and starts of attention …

In The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of
Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more …

The author narrates her experience of mourning her therapist's sudden death. The
profession has neglected implications of the analyst's mortality: what is lost or vulnerable to …

In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core
Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and …

All talking therapies profit from a patient's deliberate work in treatment, for a number of
reasons, each of which deserves separate study and reflection. This is as true for …

We agree with the commentaries that Relational psychoanalysis has stood firmly against
dichotomizing clinical reflection, on one hand, and interactional processes, on the other …

An ethics essentially consists in a judgment of our action, with the proviso that [the judgment]
is only significant if the action implied by it also contains within it, or is supposed to contain, a …

“No Touching” argues that we can locate analytic solidarity in the boundaries drawn to
protect analytic work from sexual enactment. The author traces ongoing elaborations of the …

The author examines the tensions present in every psychotherapy between the contract, on
the one hand, and the illusions of the patient and therapist, on the other. She considers …