Enlivening the Self: The First Year, Clinical Enrichment, and the Wandering Mind

Author(s) : Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Author(s) : Frank M. Lachmann, Author(s) : James L. Fosshage

Enlivening the Self: The First Year, Clinical Enrichment, and the Wandering Mind

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2015
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 184
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 37732
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138809727
  • ISBN 10 : 1138809721

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In psychoanalysis, enlivenment is seen as residing in a sense of self, and this sense of self is drawn from and shaped by lived experience. Enlivening the Self: The First Year, Clinical Enrichment, and the Wandering Mind describes the vitalizing and enrichment of self-experience throughout the life cycle and shows how active experience draws on many fundamental functional capacities, and these capacities come together in support of systems of motivation; that is, organized dynamic grouping of affects, intentions and goals.

The book is divided into three essays:

* Infancy - Joseph D. Lichtenberg makes extensive reviews of observation and research on the first year of life and presented and based on these reviews, delineates twelve foundational qualities and capacities of the self as doing, initiating and responding, activating and taking in.

* Exploratory therapy - James L. Fosshage looks where therapeutic change is entwined with development. There are many sources illustrated for enhancing the sense of self and Frank M. Lachmann pays pays particular attention to humor and to the role that the twelve qualities and capacities play in the therapeutic process.

* The wandering mind - Frank M. Lachmann covers the neuroscience and observation of mind wandering is related to the immediacy of the sense of self linking now with past and future.

Throughout the book the authors' arguments are illustrated with rich clinical vignettes and suggestions for clinical practice. This title will be a must for psychoanalysts, including trainees in psychoanalysis, psychiatry residents and candidates at psychoanalytic institutes and also graduate students in clinical and counselling psychology programs.

About the Author(s)

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and member of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and Sensuality and Sexuality across the Divide of Shame (Analytic Press, 2007).

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Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D., is a founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, Training and Supervising Analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has contributed over 100 articles to the journal literature, and is author of Transforming Aggression (Aronson, 2000), and co-author of Self and Motivational Systems (Analytic Press, 1992), The Clinical Exchange (Analytic Press, 1996), and Infant Research and Adult Treatment (Analytic Press, 2002).

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James L. Fosshage, Ph.D., is past President of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; Cofounder, Board Director, and faculty member, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, NYC; founding faculty member, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, NYC; and Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has authored over ninety psychoanalytic publications, including six books.

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