Book Announcement by Alejandro Ávila-Espada (Spain)
This edited volume (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018) adds to the last two decades of efforts to develop relational psychoanalysis from the perspective of Mediterranean Spanish authors. A full explanation of the main relational concepts and the evolving trends of relational thinking is included, with special attention paid to reconsidering diagnostics and psychopathology in a way that allow us to re-think our clinical practice and experience, by identifying the relational basis of excessive mental suffering. Clinical psychotherapeutic technique is also revised as a balance between relational provision and frustration in the context of the involvement and mutuality between the clinician and patient. Particular attention is paid to establishing the role of the analytic relationship in the change process, including as it applies specifically to clinical work with couples, with issues of sexuality, and when working with children and adolescents. Throughout the book the applicability of research findings from neuroscience and infant research to relational clinical work is considered as a way to face our challenges as psychotherapists in a changing world.
Contents:
Foreword by Spyros D. Orfanos / Presentation, Alejandro Ávila
1. Relational Psychoanalysis in Evolution: Roots, Concepts, Trends, and Challenges, Alejandro Ávila Espada
2. Relational Psychoanalysis: A New Psychoanalytic Epistemology,
Carlos Rodríguez Sutil
3. Ferenczi and Balint in the Origins of Relational Psychoanalysis,
Neri Daurella
4. Winnicott´s Contributions for the Relational Perspective in Psychoanalysis,
Francesc Sáinz Bermejo
5. The Charm of Thinking: The Work of S. A. Mitchell and Its Impact in Us,
Ariel Liberman Isod
6. From Attachment to Relationship: A Journey through Neuroscience, Mind, and Mentalization, Juan José Martínez Ibáñez
7. Trauma as a Discontinuity of the Feeling of Self: The Relational Way to Meeting Oneself Anew, Manuel Aburto Baselga
8. Between Passion and Reason: Reflections on the Spirit of the Setting in Relational Psychoanalysis, Joan Coderch de Sans and Ángels Codosero
9. Any Port in a Storm: A Complex Relational Perspective of Human Relationships and Romantic Addictions, Luis Raimundo Guerra Cid
10. Sexuality in Relational Psychoanalysis,
Rosario Castaño Catalá
11. Working Relationally in Childhood and Adolescence,
Sandra Toribio Caballero
About the Editor/Author:
Alejandro Ávila-Espada, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Full Professor and Chair of Psychotherapy at Madrid Complutense University (1984-1990/2004-present) and University of Salamanca (1990-2004), both in Spain. Founder and Honorary President of IARPP-Spain chapter. Member of the Board of Directors of IARPP (2010-2018). Honorary President and Training-Faculty Member of the Instituto de Psicoterapia Relacional (Madrid, Spain). Editor of the e-journal Clínica e Investigación Relacional, founded 2007. Editor of La tradición interpersonal. Perspectiva social y cultural del psicoanálisis (Ágora Relacional, Madrid, 2013) [The Interpersonal Tradition. A Social and Cultural Perspective of Psychoanalysis].
Alejandro Ávila-Espada, PhD
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