Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective

Rebecca Coleman Curtis, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University and Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, is author of Desire, Self, Mind and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis, editor of Self-Defeating Behaviors and the Relational Self, and co-editor of books on change, death, loneliness, taboos, identity, and failure resilience.

Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective contains reports of long-term treatments, including many dialogues and dreams, with commentaries following each one. Drawing from theories that have developed since Freud, the analysts focus on problems in living as opposed to diagnoses and repressed sexual and aggressive urges. They also express their own feelings towards patients and even their own dreams.

Introduction Rebecca C. Curtis Chapter 1 Mark the Leper Robert Akeret Commentary by Eric Dammann Chapter 2 A Change in Sexual Orientation: A Case of Pseudo-Relatedness Nickolas Samstag Commentary by Robert Watson Chapter 3 The Curative Power of an Interpersonal Approach in the Treatment of a Patient Whose Father Killed His Mother Helen Quinones Commentaries by Suzanne Little and John O'Leary Chapter 4 Defying Destiny: Genetically Doomed? Olga Cheselka Commentary by Daniel Gensler Chapter 5 The Dance of Dissociation in Healing Trauma Heather MacIntosh Commentary by Sue Kolod Chapter 6 Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Chameleon in the Mirror Alyson Feit Commentary by Elizabeth Hegeman Chapter 7 Failure to Thrive: An Eye for the I, and an Ear for the Here Sigalit Levy Commentary by Ira Moses Chapter 8 Faced with Death: Death in the Countertransference Orsoly Hunyady Commentary by Cory Chen Chapter 9 A Lost, Depressed Woman: Love, Narcissus and Echo Carol Valentin Commentary by David Braucher Chapter 10 Rejection by a Boyfriend. . . From Idealizing Transference to "Real" Partner Jenny Kahn Kaufman Commentary by Peter Kaufman Chapter 11 Tolerating Vulnerability: First at Age Ten, Then at Fifty Evelyn Hartman Commentary by Brent Willock