Debating Relational Psychoanalysis

<p>In <i>Debating Relational Psychoanalysis</i>, Jon Mills provides an historical record of the debates that had taken place for nearly two decades on his critique of the relational school, including responses from his critics. </p><p>Since he initiated his critique, relational psychoanalysis has become an international phenomenon with proponents worldwide. This book hopes that further dialogue may not only lead to conciliation, but more optimistically, that relational theory may be inspired to improve upon its theoretical edifice, both conceptually and clinically, as well as develop technical parameters to praxis that help guide and train new clinicians to sharpen their own theoretical orientation and therapeutic efficacy. Because of the public exchanges in writing and at professional symposiums, these debates have historical significance in the development of the psychoanalytic movement as a whole simply due to their contentiousness and proclivity to question cherished assumptions, both old and new. In presenting this collection of his work, and those responses of his critics, Mills argues that psychoanalysis may only advance through critique and creative refinement, and this requires a deconstructive praxis within the relational school itself. </p><p>Debating Relational Psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalysts of all orientations, psychotherapists, mental health workers, psychoanalytic historians, philosophical psychologists, and the broad disciplines of humanistic, phenomenological, existential, and analytical psychology.</p> <p>Foreword by Arnold D. Richards<em>. </em>Introduction: (Re)visioning Relational Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills. 1. A Critique of Relational Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills 2. Contextualizing is not Nullifying: Reply to Mills, Robert D. Stolorow, George E. Atwood, & Donna M. Orange 3. Assertions of Therapeutic Excess: A Reply to Mills, Marilyn S. Jacobs 4. "Neither Fish nor Flesh": Commentary on Jon Mills, Stuart A. Pizer 5. A Response to my Critics, Jon Mills 6. Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Interview on New Books in Psychoanalysis ,Jon Mills & Tracy D. Morgan 7. Fine-Tuning Problems in Relational Psychoanalysis: New Directions in Theory and Praxis, Jon Mills 8. Introduction to The Relational Approach and its Critics: A Conference with Dr. Jon Mills, Aner Govrin 9. Challenging Relational Psychoanalysis: A Critique of Postmodernism and Analyst Self- Disclosure, Jon Mills 10. Straw Men, Stereotypes, and Constructive Dialogue: A Response to Mills’ Criticism of the Relational Approach, Chana Ullman 11. On Multiple Epistemologies in Theory and Practice: A Response to Jon Mills’ “Challenging Relational Psychoanalysis: A Critique of Postmodernism and Analyst Self-Disclosure”, Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot 12. Relational Psychoanalysis and the Concepts of Truth and Meaning: Response to Jon Mills, Boaz Shalgi 13. Projective Identification and Relatedness: A Kleinian Perspective, Merav Roth 14. Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism: A Response to Dr. Jon Mills’ “Challenging Relational Psychoanalysis: A Critique of Postmodernism and Analyst Self-Disclosure”, Liran Razinsky 15. Relational Psychoanalysis Out of Context: Response to Jon Mills , Steven Kuchuck & Rachel Sopher 16. Challenging Relational Psychoanalysis: A Reply to My Critics Jon Mills</p>