Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.This volume traces how both themes interconnect, largely as they crystallize in the author’s personal experience of tr...

Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective – intersubjective-systems theory – is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this framework, Stolorow shows both how post-Cartesian psychoanalysis finds enrichment and philosophical support in Heidegger's analysis of human existence, and how Heidegger's existential philosophy, in tu...

後佛洛伊德時代重量級精神分析著作互為主體性學派是當代自體心理學和關係學派精神分析的重要基礎，也是推動當代精神分析理論研究的重要力量。該學派的基石性著作《體驗的世界》，則清晰地表達了互為主體性學派在西方哲學維度與臨床精神分析維度上的立場與觀點。本書作者們在反思古典臨床心理學、自我心理學的局限後，借助了胡塞爾等人的現象學思想和寇哈特自體心理學的發展，針對所謂孤立心靈等概念，對西方近代哲學之父笛卡兒開足了批評的火力。他們認為，所有的心理過程，都源於個體與個體之間的相互關係，而非孤立的心靈內在產物。孤獨的心靈並不是真實存在的。實際的人類生活及臨床精神分析過程，總是兩個主體甚至更多的系統一起交叉影響後的發展，這種發展以體驗的方式持續流動著。這些思考將帶領臨床工作者以更開放的態度去傾聽案主的語言以及來自自己的聲音，而無論哪一方的視角，都會受到交互關係的影響，形成微妙的「共振」，進入同一個存在維度。採用互為主體的觀點，以精神分析方法嘗試理解並治療思覺失調、解離等嚴重精神病性狀態，因此成為可能。這本後佛洛伊德時代的重要精神分析...

The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread—namely, the power of phenomenological inquiry and understanding in a wide range of contexts.This book demonstrates how they have experienced the power of phenomenology in their therapeutic work with patients, especially those struggling with horrific trauma; in their encounters with psychological...

In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pillars of psychoanalytic theory since they have already demonstrated the degree to which psychological theory is influenced by the subjective world of the psychological t...

From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow proceed to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality. They then examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration, and conclude with an examination of what it means, philosophically and clinically, to think and work contextually.This lucidly written and cogently argued work is the next...

Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective. In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical phenomena, including transference and resistance, conflict formation, therapeutic action, affective and self development, and borderline and psychotic states. As a consequence, the autho...

Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism, is a revised and expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which was the first systematic presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called psychoanalytic phenomenology – in psychoanalysis. This edition contains new chapters tracing the further development of their thinking over the ensuing decades and explores th...

The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it is one of the most powerful concepts to be introduced into the post-Freudian era. In Worlds of Experience, Dr. Stolorow and two eminent colleagues elaborate on intersubjectivity, going beyond the clinical and theoretical questions of earlier work to explore the philosophical underpinnings of ps...

This remarkable book is required reading for all mental professionals because it is the most comprehensive and articulate presentation about the recent changes in psychoanalytic theory concerning the inclusion of relational and interactional concepts. The authors' conception of a system of differently organized intersecting subjective worlds illuminates both the process of psychoanalytic therapy and the stages of psychic development. One of the central tenets of this innovative perspective...