George E. Atwood, is Professor of Clinical Psychology (Emeritus), Rutgers University, and Founding Faculty Member, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York. He is author and coauthor of numerous books.
Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective... (more)
Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism is a revised and expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which was the first systematic... (more)
The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it... (more)
The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread-namely, the power... (more)
'In my judgment, the authors have made a strong case for the proposition that the structure of a theorist's metapsychology will duplicate the structure of his subjective world, laid down mainly by... (more)
Intersubjectivity focuses on the reciprocal, mutual influence between patient and therapist. The book explores the implications of this perspective for clinical practice. The approach calls for a... (more)
From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, this text proceeds to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic... (more)