Book Announcement by Steven Kuchuck (USA)
The relational revolution led to what is arguably 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.
Written by a leading teacher and scholar of relational thinking, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 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.
Grasping this unique opportunity to explore the implications of therapists and patients simultaneously experiencing the same life events and crises, Kuchuck 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.
Kuchuck addresses core theories of Relational psychoanalysis and defines postmodern relational concepts, offering a clear, thoughtfully curated examination of relationality and its impact on psychoanalytic technique for both experienced clinicians and those newer to the field. Published by Confer Books, this primer is thoroughly referenced to facilitate further research and illustrated with clinical examples throughout.
Video overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6KQS7XvuuU
Steven Kuchuck, DSW is Senior Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Co-Editor, 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).
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