The creation of reality in psychoanalysis
Subtitle: a view of the contributions of Donald Spence, Roy Schafer, Robert Stolorow, Irwin Z. Hoffman, and beyond
By: Richard Moore.
Publisher: Anayltic Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Reality -- Psychological aspects.; Psychoanalysis.
Description: "Written with concentration and grace, The Creation of Reality in Psychoanalysis begins with the ambiguities in Freud's founding commitment to a recoverable, objectively verifiable reality before examining the ghost of objectivism that confounds, in surprising and unexpected ways, Spence's, Schafer's, Stolorow's, and Hoffman's recent attempts to move toward narrativist and constructivist views of the analytic encounter." "Following his penetrating survey of the contributions of these four major architects of contemporary psychoanalysis, Moore provides a glimpse of what an internally consistent postmodern metapsychology would actually look like. He approaches this task by exploring how our understanding of basic analytic concepts may ultimately be reconciled with the view that the creation of reality is an intrinsic aspect of any therapeutic encounter."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index.