Psychoanalytic Credos

<p>Developing psychoanalytic credos, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent’s original Credo essay, 27 psychoanalysts were asked to write their credos and/or their psychoanalytic journey. This book represents a multi-theoretical and multi-generational grouping, trained at different institutes, during different eras (grouped by decades 1960-2000) and across cultures. They are drawn from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary Freudians and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don’t easily fit categorization. This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey.</p> <p>Introduction<br><i>Jill Salberg</i></p><p>Section 1</p><p>1960’s </p><p>1. My Journey*</p><p>Sheldon Bach, Ph.D. </p><p>2. My Journey: Haydee Faimberg Interviewed by and in conversation with </p><p>Graciela V. Consoli and Ezequiel A. Jaroslavsky*</p><p>Haydee Faimberg, M.D. </p><p>Section 2</p><p>1970’s</p><p>3. <i>What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road*</i></p><p>Ricardo Bernardi, M.D.</p><p>4. <i>What is Theory?*</i></p><p>Christopher Bollas, Ph.D.</p><p>5. <i>My Psychoanalytic Journey*</i></p><p>Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D. </p><p>6. <i>An Autobiographical Fragment*</i></p><p>Jay Greenberg, Ph.D. </p><p>7. <i>Credo: Psychoanalysis as a Wisdom Tradition</i></p><p>Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.</p><p>8. <i>Becoming the Analysts That We Turn Out to Be</i></p><p>Michael Parsons, M.D. </p><p>Section 3:</p><p>1980’s</p><p>9. <i>Credo: Mutuality and Asymmetry*</i></p><p>Lewis Aron, Ph.D.</p><p>10. <i>Credo: The Sufferings of the World</i></p><p>Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.</p><p>11. <i>Credo: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis</i></p><p>Steven Cooper, Ph.D.</p><p>12. <i>Credo</i></p><p>Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.</p><p>13. <i>Reflections on the way I practice psychoanalysis*</i></p><p>Thomas Ogden, M.D.</p><p>14. <i>Toward a Humanistic Psychoanalysis</i></p><p>Donna Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D.</p><p>15. <i>Becoming and Being a Psychoanalyst: Credo As Ongoing Journey </i></p><p>Jill Salberg, Ph.D.</p><p>16. <i>Against the Grain, On Challenging Assumptions, Bridging Theories, Practicing Self-Critique, Exposing Underbellies, and Doing the Right Thing</i></p><p>Joyce Slochower, Ph.D.</p><p>Section 4:</p><p>1990’s</p><p>17. <i>Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents</i></p><p>Mary Brady, Ph.D.</p><p>Chapter 18. <i>Credo: So Our Lives Glide On*</i></p><p>Ken Corbett, Ph.D.</p><p>19. <i>Peasants, Fields, and Expanding Horizons in Psychoanalysis</i></p><p>Elizabeth Corpt, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.</p><p>20. <i>Analytic Eroticism</i></p><p>Dianne Elise, Ph.D.</p><p>21. <i>Credo quia absurdum</i></p><p>Bruce Reis, Ph.D.</p><p>22. <i>Working it Out: Development, Politics, Multidisciplinarity*</i></p><p>Stephen Seligman, D.M.H.</p><p>23. <i>Credo: In Search of Transformation</i></p><p>Melanie Suchet, Ph.D.</p><p>Section 5:</p><p>2000’s</p><p>24. <i>On Truthlessness – or, All in the Game</i></p><p>Stephen Hartman, Ph.D.</p><p>25. <i>My Psychoanalytic Search for Freedom</i></p><p>Ilana Laor, M.A. </p><p>26. The Risk of Analysis</p><p>Avgi Saketopoulou, Ph.D.</p><p>27. <i>Credo: Relationality and the Collective —A Psychoanalytic Journey in Context</i></p><p>Chana Ullman, Ph.D.</p>