Book Announcement by Steven Kuchuck (USA)

Steven Kuchuck’s 2021 book, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, has just been translated into Italian by Telesma, a new publishing house. Arguing that the relational revolution led to the most radical revision of our understanding of how to effect healing and change in the mind since Freud’s ground-breaking work more than a century ago, Kuchuck’s primer provides a comprehensive overview of relational psychoanalysis in one concise volume.

The book investigates clinical theory and technique as well as the challenges of conducting psychotherapy during the extraordinary twinned circumstances of a global pandemic and an equally widespread societal awakening to the consequences of systemic racism. Kuchuck addresses core Relational psychoanalytic theories and defines postmodern relational concepts. He examines the impact of the therapist’s subjectivity on the patient and other hallmarks of Relational psychoanalysis such as enactments, co-construction, self-disclosure and multiplicity, and relational perspectives on race, gender and sexuality. Offering a clear, thoughtfully curated examination of relationality and its impact on psychoanalytic technique for both experienced clinicians and those newer to the field, The Relational Revolution is thoroughly referenced to facilitate further research and illustrated with clinical examples throughout.

Steven Kuchuck, DSW is Senior Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Co-Editor of Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series; Past President of IARPP; faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and Board Member, faculty and supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). Dr. Kuchuck’s teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris).

Steven Kuchuck, DSW
New York, NY, USA
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