The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation - Softcover

Jacobs, Theodore J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949093220 ISBN 13: 9781949093223

Publisher: Ipbooks, 2019

Synopsis

“Theodore Jacobs broke novel ground in 1991, thinking about analytic engagement in this classic and beloved book that is presented in this new edition, insuring interest for new generations of psychoanalysts. Jacobs’s gi was (and is) the transla)on of challenging theory into its subtle depths of clinical application. He integrates ego psychology, self psychology and object relations. Nowadays he belongs in Chodorow’s 2004/2019 category of ‘The American Independent Tradition,’ using an intersubjective ego psychology after Loewald and Erikson that is fresh and contemporary. Masterfully he shows fruitful details of how countertransference actually works verbally and nonverbally, moving along clinical process. Demonstrating how limited was the old view of the analyst’s reactive feelings and attitudes as hindrance, Jacobs shows the impact of its use for self-attunement, and ultimately sensitivity to the patient’s life and mind. He builds here on his 1986 inventive interactive concept of ’enactment’— a term nowadays so useful in our thinking about unmentalized traumatic aspects of analytic interaction that we have forgotten how controversial it once would have been. . . . enthusiastically recommended for all who practice and care about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented therapies.”
—ROSEMARY H. BALSAM, FRCPsych (Lond), MRCP (Edin),
Author of Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis . 

About this title

About the Author

THEODORE J. JACOBS, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Emeritus at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and training and supervising analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education where he is also a child supervising analyst.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ipbooks
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949093220
• ISBN 13: 9781949093223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254