Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis

Roy Schafer has sixty years of experience as a psychoanalytic therapist, during which time he has been an active teacher in his own Institutes and a guest lecturer and teacher in many others in the U.S. He has contributed to numerous English language psychoanalytic journals and his books and articles have been translated into several languages. He has held academic positions as Clinical Professor at Yale and Cornell University Medical Schools. He was the first Freud Memorial Professor 1975-76 at University College London. He has received many honours from his colleagues and in 2009 the International Psychoanalytical Association honoured him with its prestigious Scientific Achievement Award.

Preface, Acknowledgments, Credits, PART I: Changing Directions, 1. In the Wake of Heinz Hartmann, 2. The Conceptualization of Clinical Facts, 3. On Gendered Discourse and Discourse on Gender, 4. Five Readings of Freud’s “Observations on Transference-Love”, 5. Conversations with Elisabeth von R., PART II: Further Clinical Explorations, 6. Humiliation and Mortification in Unconscious Fantasy, 7. Blocked Introjection/Blocked Incorporation, 8. Some Reflections on the Concept of Enactment, 9. Aloneness in the Countertransference, 10. An Analyst’s Notebook, PART III: Authority, Morality, Conformity, 11. Authority, Evidence, and Knowledge in the Psychoanalytic Relationship, 12. The Practice of Revisiting Classics: An Essay on Heinz Hartmann’s Psychoanalysis and Moral Values, 13. A Classic Revisited: Kurt Eissler’s “The Effect of the Structure of the Ego on Psychoanalytic Technique”, 14. The Evolution of My Views on Nonnormative Sexual Practices, References, Name Index, Subject Index