Clinical Interaction
and the Analysis of Meaning
ANALYTIC PRESS | ISBN: 0881631469

“A superb synthesis of principles of cognitive psychology and contemporary relational perspectives in psychoanalysis, [this book] offers major revision of aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Beginning with an incisive critique of the isolation assumptions of classical psychoanalysis and its ‘blind spot for interactional dynamics,’ Dorpat and Miller go on to demonstrate that clinical phenomena derive not from endogenously arising fantasies but from actual interactions between patient and therapist and the unconscious meanings these interactions acquire for the patient. Rich clinical illustrations y the important implications for the authors’ theoretical revisions for one’s therapeutic approach to transference, resistance, dreams and psychopathology in general. This book is highly recommended for all who wish to keep up with the leading edge of current psychoanalytic thinking.