Underlying Assumptions in Psychoanalytic Schools A Comparative Perspective

This book offers a comparative study of the major schools of psychoanalysis by exploring their historical development, their differences and similarities, and the underlying assumptions made by each. Encompassing the expertise of colleagues from different schools of psychoanalytic thought, each chapter explores a particular perspective, defining specific theoretical assumptions, theories of etiology, and implications for technique, as well as providing each author’s view on the historical development of key psychoanalytic concepts. With contributions from leading authors in the field, and covering both historical and international schools, the book provides an enlightening account that will prove essential to psychoanalytic practitioners and students of psychoanalysis and the history of medicine.

Foreword Virginia Ungar Introduction Bernd Huppertz 1. Historical Introduction: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Metapsychology, Ego Psychoanalysis, the Developing Freudian School of Thought, and the Deviants Bernd Huppertz 2. Contemporary UK Freudians Francois Louw 3. Klein, Kleinians, and Post-Kleinians: Deeper Layers of the Mind and Projective Identification Tomasz Fortuna 4. Fairbairn and the Independent Tradition John Keene and Graham S. Clark 5. Winnicott and the Winnicottians Frances Thomson-Salo 6. Bion, Bionians, and Post-Bionians: The Relational and the Unrepresented Tomasz Fortuna 7. John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, and Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Orit Badouk Epstein 8. Lacan and the Lacanians: The Lacanian Unconscious Patrick Landman 9. New York Freudian Group, US Freudians, and Contemporary Freudians Leon Hoffman 10. American Ego Psychology Les Fleischer 11. Sandor Ferenczi, the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis, and the Ferenczi Tradition: The Bridge Between the "One-Person" and "Two-Person" Psychology Judit Mészáros 12. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Miri Abramis 13. The Neo-Freudians Roger Frie 14. Self Psychology, Kohut and the Kohutian Perspective Allen Siegel 15. Post-Kohutian Self Psychology Amanda Kottler 16. Relational Psychoanalysis: An Assessment at this Time Neil Skolnick 17. Intersubjectivity: Intersubjective Systems Theory Joshua R. Burg 18. American Object Relations: The Assumptions of American Object Relations Theories Frank Summers 19. Infant Research-Rooted Therapies in the UK Alejandra Perez 20. Infant Research-Rooted US Therapies: History of Development of Infant Research-Rooted Theories and the Core Concept of a Developmental Theory of Psychoanalysis Alexandra Harris and Ed Tronick 21. Neuropsychoanalysis: A Widening Scope for Psychoanalysis Iréne Matthis 22. Italian Psychoanalytic Thought Massimo Vigna-Taglianti 23. Argentine Psychoanalysis and the Psycho-Social Perspective Samuel Arbiser 24. Psychoanalyses in Asia Koichi Togashi 25. Jung and the Jungians: The Jungian Perspective Isabelle Meier 26. The Post-Jungians Ann Addison 27. Summary and Overview Bernd Huppertz 28. Epilogue: Psychoanalysis and the Journey from Natural to Social Science Bernd Huppertz 29. Prospectus and Perspectives Bernd Huppertz

Bernd Huppertz is a physician in private practice. In Germany, he is a psychotherapist (child, adolescent, adult, and group), a psychiatrist, a neurologist and, formerly, a brain researcher. In 2002, he qualified to teach further education in psychiatry and psychotherapy (lecturer, teaching therapist, and supervisor) (Brandenburg Medical Association). He is also a part-time medical director of non-profit outpatient counseling/rehabilitation centers for patients affected by addiction. He is the editor of Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions and of Approaches to Psychic Trauma: Theory and Practice.