Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice

by Donna M. Orange, George E. Atwood, Robert D. Stolorow

In this readable overview of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow offer contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality, examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration, and then examine what it means, philosophically and clinically, to think and work contextually.

Genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis

120 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Donna M. Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D., holds two doctorates: one in Philosophy from Fordham University and the other in Clinical Psychology from Yeshiva University. A faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and a supervisor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, she maintains a private practice in New Jersey.

Reviews

[Matt]

Brief and dense, this book is a nice introduction to the more philosophical components of intersubjective theory. It also weaves in case vignettes, which are helpful in bringing the concepts alive.