Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View

The psychoanalytic process is characterized by a complex weave of interrelated polarities: transference and countertransference, repetition and new experience, enactment and interpretation, discipline and personal responsiveness, the intrapsychic a

Author: Irwin Z. Hoffman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780881633627

About the Author

Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a supervising analyst and faculty member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Hoffman is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and is an editorial reader for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He is coauthor, with Merton M. Gill, of Analysis of Transference, Vol. II: Studies of Nine Audio-Recorded Psychoanalytic Sessions (1982).