Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts


Book Announcement by Jill Salberg (USA)

Developing psychoanalytic credos, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent’s original (1989) “Credo” essay, Jill Salberg asked 27 psychoanalysts to write their own credos and/or psychoanalytic journey.

Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts represents a multi-theoretical and multi-generational grouping of psychoanalysts trained at different institutes, during different eras (grouped by decades, 1960-2000) and across cultures. They are drawn from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary Freudians and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don’t easily fit categorization. The book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training as well as those post-training yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journeys.

www.routledge.com/Psychoanalytic-Credos-Personal-and-Professional-Journeys-of-Psychoanalysts/Salberg/p/book/9781032054728

Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and ICP. She is the editor of Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010). She has co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference (2017), both of which won the 2018 Gradiva Award. She is in private practice in Manhattan.

Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP
New York, NY
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