Intimate Attachments: Toward a New Self Psychology

by Estelle Shane, Morton Shane, Mary Gales

Book Overview

Offering new ways of thinking about the intimate connections between analyst and patient, this lucid, clinically oriented volume presents an innovative model of psychoanalytic change. The authors... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572302704
• ISBN13: 9781572302709
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

a good introduction to contemporary self psychology

Intimate Attachments is a much needed book - one that clearly fills the space between developmental theory (a la Bowlby) and one of the major schools of thought in contemporary psychoanalytic theory (i.e., Kohutian self psychology). With a thorough discussion of theoretical dovetailing and each theory's assumptive underpinnings, the authors provide a rich yet accessible framework for understanding patients from a "new" (integrative) perspective. A reworking of the notions of transference and intimacy (within the therapeutic relationship) rounds out the theoretical picture, which is then fleshed out with numerous vignettes of work with children, adolescents, and adults. This book provides a good introduction to self psychology to those who are new to the field, yet offers something for the veteran as well.