Intersubjective Systems Perspective and Relational Perspective: A Conversation About Differences in Theory and Clinical Practice Instructors: Estelle Shane, Ph.D. and Ilene Philipson, Ph.D., Psy.D. 2012 – 2013 Weekend Class
Session One: September 22, 2012 Introduction Frie, R., Reis, B. (2005). “Intersubjectivity: From Theory through Practice,” in Jon Mills (ed), Emotional and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. Frederickson, J. “The Problem of Relationality,” in Ibid. Beebe, B., Knoblauch, S.H., Rustin, J., and Sorter, D. , (2005). “Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment: A Systems View,” in Forms of Intersubjectivity In Infant Research and Adult Treatment. Reis, B. (2008). “Varieties of Recognition”, in IJPSP, 158-178.
Session Two: October 27, 2012 Orange, D. “Recognition as Intersubjective Vulnerability”, in Ibid.
Recognition
Orange, D. (2010). “Recognition as Intersubjective Vulnerability,” IJPSP, 227-243 (2010). Benjamin, J. “Can We Recognize Each Other?” in Ibid. Slavin, M. “On Recognizing the Psychoanalytic Perspective of the Other,” in Ibid. Orange, D. “Revisiting Mutual Recognition, in Ibid. Recommended Reading: Coburn, W. and Shane, E. (2008). “Recognizing Recognition in Self Psychology, IJPSP, 153-158. Ringstrom, P. “Commentary on Orange”, in Ibid.
Session Three: December 1, 2012 Trauma Stolorow, R. (1999). “The Phenomenology of Trauma and the Absolutisms of Everyday Life: A Personal Journal”, Psychoanal Psychol., 16: 464-468. Stolorow, R.D. (2001). Portkeys, Eternal Recurrence, and the Phenomenology of Traumatic Temporality, Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 6:433-436.
Stolorow, R.D. (2008). Imagine a World…. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 3:126-128. Car, R. (2011). “Combat” Psychoanalytic Psychol. 28: 471-496. Ringstrom, P. (2010). “Review of Trauma and Human Existence” by Robert Stolorow, Psychoanalytic Psychology, 27. Philipson, I. (2010). “Pathologizing Twinship: An Exploration of Robert Stolorow’s Traumatocentrism, IJPSP. Bromberg, P. (2008). “Shrinking the Tsunami,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 44.
Session 4: January 26, 2013 Shame Orange, D. (2008). “Whose Shame is it Anyway?” Lifeworlds of Humiliation and Systems of Restoration (or the Analyst’s Shame), Contemp. Psychoanalysis, 44:83-100. Benjamin, J. (2009). “A Relational Psychoanalysis Perspective on the Necessity of Acknowledging Failure in Order to Restore the Facilitating and Containing Features of Intersubjective Relationship (the Shared Third)”, The Int Journal of Psych, 90. Stolorow, R.D. (2010). “The Shame Family”, IJPSP, 5: 367-368. Levine, Lauren, and Ringstrom, P., (2012). Psy Diaglogues, Vow 22, #4.
Session 5: April 6, 2013 Intrapsychic and Individuality Stern, D. (2010). “ The Eye Sees Itself: Dissociation, Enactment, and the Achievement of Conflict” in Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, 71-107. Stolorow, R., Atwood, G., and Orange, D. (2002). “Cartesian Trends in Relational Psychoanalysis”, in Worlds of Experience, 77-101. Coburn, W. (2011). “Recontextualizing Individuality and Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,” in Persons in Context, The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice, Frie and Coburn. Ed. Pps, 121-147. Aron, L. (2006). IJP, Vol. 87, 349-368. Stolorow, R.D. (2011). “From Mind to World, From Drive to Affectivity: A PhenomenologicalContextual Psychoanalytic Perspective” in Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis”, Vol. 5, pps. 1-14.
Session 6: May 25, 2013 Countertransference/Multiplicity Bromberg, P. (1998). “Standing in the Spaces”, The Multiplicity of Self and the Psychoanalytic Relationship, in Standing in the Spaces. Benjamin, J. (2010). “Where’s the Gap and What’s the Difference?: The Relational view of Intersubjectivity, Multiple Selves, and Enactments. Harris, A.E. (2011). The Relational Tradition: Landscape and Canon. J.Amer.Psychoanal. Assn., 59:701-735. Brandchaft, B. (2007). Systems of Pathological Accommodation and Change in Analysis, Psychoanal. Psychol., 24:667-687. Stolorow, R.D. (1992). Varieties of Therapeutic Impasse, in Context of Being, ed. Stolorow and Atwood. Recommended Reading: Orange, D., (1994). Countertransference, Empathy, and the Hermeneutic Circle, in The Intersubjective Perspective, ed. by Stolorow, R., Atwood, G., and Brandchaft, B. pps. 177-186.
