Self-Analysis

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.

Foreword -Stephen A. Mitchell I. Development of the Capacity for Self-Analysis: Exploration of our "Personal Equations" Developmental Foundations for the Capacity for Self-Analysis: Parallels in the Roles of Caregiver and Analyst - E. Virginia Demos Does Our Self-Analysis Take Into Consideration Our Assumptions? -Ricardo Bernardi and Beatriz de Leon de Bernardi II. Analytic Work and Self-Analysis Contemplating the Mirror of the Other: Empathy and Self-Analysis - Alfred Margulies Work with Patients and the Experience of Self-Analysis - James T. McLaughlin Engagements in Analysis and Their Use in Self-Analysis - Henry F. Smith III. Modes of Self-Analytic Activity Self-Analysis of a Taboo - Ernest S. Wolf On Fastball Pitching, Astronomical Clocks, and Self-Cognition - John E. Gedo On Talking to Ourselves: Some Self-Analytical Reflections on Self-Analysis - Robert Gardner IV. The Role of the Other in Self-Analysis The Discovery of Real and Fantasized Audiences for Self-Analysis - Rivka R. Eifermann Mutual Supervision, Countertransference, and Self-Analysis - Adrienne Harris and Therese Ragen Self and Other in Self-Analysis - Warren S. Poland V. Self-Analysis, Writing, and Creativity To Write or Not to Write: A Note on Self-Analysis and the Residstance to Self-Analysis - Stephen M. Sonnenberg Beckett: Self-Analysis and Creativity - Didier Anzieu Freud's Self-Analysis - Martine Lussier