George Atwood: 8 books
Worlds Of Experience
Interweaving Philosophical And Clinical Dimensions In Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
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 is one of the most powerful concepts to be introduced into the post-Freudian era. In Worlds of Experience,...
Luminous Ink
Writers on Writing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...
Structures of Subjectivity
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
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 presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called psychoanalytic...
by George E. Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
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 manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian psychoanalytic...
Working Intersubjectively
Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow proceed to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality. They then examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological...
Contexts of Being
The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pillars...
Psychoanalytic Treatment
An Intersubjective Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective. In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical...
The Power of Phenomenology
Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
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 of phenomenological inquiry and understanding in a wide range of contexts.
This book demonstrates...