Table of Contents

PART I: CURRENT RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS

Chapter 1: CORE COMPETENCIES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Roy Barsness

Chapter 2: THE CASE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: EXPLORING THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE John Thor Cornelius

Chapter 3: THE RELATIONAL TRADITION: LANDSCAPE AND CANON Adrienne Harris

PART II: CORE COMPETENCIES

Chapter 4: COMPETENCY ONE: THERAPEUTIC INTENT Steven Tublin

Chapter 5: COMPETENCY TWO: THERAPEUTIC STANCE/ATTITUDE Nancy McWilliams

Chapter 6: COMPETENCY THREE: DEEP LISTENING/AFFECTIVE ATTUNEMENT Stuart Pizer

Chapter 7: COMPETENCY FOUR: RELATIONAL DYNAMIC: THE THERE AND THEN AND THE HERE AND NOW Lewis Aron

Chapter 8: COMPETENCY FIVE: PATTERNING AND LINKING Steven Knoblauch

Chapter 9: COMPETENCY SIX: REPETITION AND WORKING THROUGH Karen Maroda

Chapter 10: COMPETENCY SEVEN: COURAGEOUS SPEECH/DISPLINED SPONTANEITY Roy Barsness & Brad Strawn

Chapter 11: CORE COMPETENCY: LOVE Daniel Shaw

PART III: NEW FRONTIERS

Chapter 12: RELATIONAL ETHICS Roy Barsness & Brad Strawn

Chapter 13: THE BRAIN AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Allan Schore

Chapter 14: SEXUALITY AND GENDER Karol Marshall & Roy Barsness

Chapter 15: CULTURE CONSIDERATIONS Pratyusha Tummala-Narra

Chapter 16: SELF CARE Roy Barsness & Anita Sorenson

PART IV: A CRITIQUE

Chapter 17: CRITIQUE OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS Jon Mills with a postscript by Steven Kuchuck

About the Author

Roy E. Barsness is a Professor at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, the Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis and Christian Theology, and the Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Group, Seattle. He was formally the Clinical Director at Seattle Pacific University and a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He has been in independent practice for over 25 years.

Reviews

"Roy Barsness and his co-authors have undertaken the difficult task of presenting a text of Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis to guide younger and more experienced therapists to an integration of theory and practice. The authors outstanding success lies in their skilled address of the challenge in Relational Psychoanalysis to offer an approach that is flexibly attuned to the individuality of each patient/analyst dyad while practiced with a disciplined intent, form, and rhythm. The what and how to do is presented in seven competencies with a coda on love – all becoming enlivened for the reader by clinical narratives. A difficult task well mastered."-Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., Director Emeritus of The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of Craft & Spirit, Editor-in-Chief of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series."While reading this book, I felt like I had entered the mind of the relational analyst. Both the carefully constructed mindset and the overall honoring of the work comes through in every chapter. As a director of the Masters in Counseling program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, I am always looking for texts that convey both the passion and the skill associated with analytic work to be an inspiration to my students. I have found it."-Francesca Giordano, Ph.D., Program Director, Clinical Professor, The Counseling Program, The Family Institute at Northwestern University."Originally a reaction against the constricting orthodoxy and authoritarianism of an entrenched psychoanalytic establishment, relational psychoanalysis has evolved into a sophisticated and comprehensive paradigm representing the leading edge of psychoanalytic thought. This masterful volume, with contributions by luminaries of the relational movement, elucidates the core assumptions and competencies of relational psychoanalysis. Simultaneously sweeping in scope and scholarly in detail, it is essential reading for students and experienced clinicians alike."-Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D., University of Colorado School of Medicine

"Roy Barsness and his co-authors have undertaken the difficult task of presenting a text of Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis to guide younger and more experienced therapists to an integration of theory and practice. The authors outstanding success lies in their skilled address of the challenge in Relational Psychoanalysis to offer an approach that is flexibly attuned to the individuality of each patient/analyst dyad while practiced with a disciplined intent, form, and rhythm. The what and how to do is presented in seven competencies with a coda on love – all becoming enlivened for the reader by clinical narratives. A difficult task well mastered."-Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., Director Emeritus of The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of Craft & Spirit, Editor-in-Chief of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series."While reading this book, I felt like I had entered the mind of the relational analyst. Both the carefully constructed mindset and the overall honoring of the work comes through in every chapter. As a director of the Masters in Counseling program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, I am always looking for texts that convey both the passion and the skill associated with analytic work to be an inspiration to my students. I have found it."-Francesca Giordano, Ph.D., Program Director, Clinical Professor, The Counseling Program, The Family Institute at Northwestern University."Originally a reaction against the constricting orthodoxy and authoritarianism of an entrenched psychoanalytic establishment, relational psychoanalysis has evolved into a sophisticated and comprehensive paradigm representing the leading edge of psychoanalytic thought. This masterful volume, with contributions by luminaries of the relational movement, elucidates the core assumptions and competencies of relational psychoanalysis. Simultaneously sweeping in scope and scholarly in detail, it is essential reading for students and experienced clinicians alike."-Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D., University of Colorado School of Medicine