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Self-Analysis : Critical Inquiries, Personal Visions - James W. Barron

Self-Analysis

Critical Inquiries, Personal Visions

By: James W. Barron

Paperback | 23 June 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Self-Analysis is a fascinating reprise on the mode of disciplined self-inquiry that gave rise to psychoanalysis. From Freud''s pioneering self-analytic efforts onward, self-analysis has been central to psychoanalytic training and psychoanalytic practice.  Yet, only in recent years have analysts turned their attention to this wellspring of Freud''s creation.

The contributors to Self-Analysis represent diverse theoretical perspectives, but they share a common appreciation of the importance of self-analysis to the analytic endeavor.  Their papers encompass systematic inquiries into the capacity for self-analysis, examples of self-analysis as an aspect of clinical work, and personal reflections on the role of self-analysis in professional growth.  Among the questions explored: What do we mean by self-analysis?  To what extent and under what conditions is self-analysis possible?  How does it differ from ordinary introspection?  What are the developmental antecedents of the capacity for self-analysis?  What is the role of the "other" in self-analysis?  What are the relationships among self-analysis, writing, and creativity? 

As Barron observes, the contributors to the book "grapple with the formidable ambiguities of self-analysis without either idealizing or devaluing its potential."  What emerges from their effort is not only an illuminating window into the psychoanalyst''s subjectivity as a fact of clinical life, but a far-reaching exemplification of the ways in which self-understanding is always a constitutive part of our understanding of others.

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"This is one of the most valuable books on psychoanalysis to appear in many years. The contributors offer a fascinating overview both of the way that analysts go about analyzing themselves and the way that their psychology resonates with that of their patients."

- Theodore Jacobs, M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Institute

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