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"Intricate Engagements: The
Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change"
Intricate
Engagements confronts one of the fundamental challenges of contemporary
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. At each clinical moment psychotherapists are
flooded with possibilities. To manage this situation they often take refuge in
preconceived ideas about psychology and change. Intricate
Engagements helps therapists find their way through and out of this
maze. Dr. Frankel shows how to chart a course through the moment-to-moment
uncertainty of the therapeutic situation in a way that maintains the compelling
immediacy and often terrifying intimacy required for two people to influence
one another.
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Commentary
"A few years ago, Dr.
Frankel found himself stalemated in several ongoing clinical situations. This
richly textured book documents his professional and personal response to the
challenges of those situations. He was led to reexamine his classical
psychoanalytic roots, to explore relational theory, and to evolve his own
hybrid collaborative theory of therapy and change. His thoughtfully,
systematically, and candidly presented personal evolution can help clinicians
at all levels to orient their practices in today’s evolving world of
psychoanalysis…"
— excerpted from review in Contemporary
Psychoanalysis
"…This is a courageous undertaking and Frankel
takes the reader step by step through the intellectual and emotional processes
that underlie this enterprise. He begins by actively engaging with the
literature on the analytic process and on early development. This is no mere
review of the literature: rather, it is a creative act of confronting,
organizing, and interpreting a very wide range of analytic thought and
empirical study. Intricate Engagements represents new ways of conceptualization
of the analytic encounter, but the book is most importantly an illustration of
a form of analytic integrity that is based on the willingness of the author to
open to self-questioning every aspect of the analytic experience."
— Thomas Ogden, M.D.
"Dr. Frankel gives us a remarkable
story of intellectual honesty and the search for personal meaning. He clearly
shows through the eyes and soul of the therapist why we need something more
than drives. Moving beyond the secure base of his classical training, he finds
what he needs in his review of contemporary infant research, object relations,
self psychology, and relational theories, all relayed in a simple yet thorough,
scholarly way. I especially appreciated the impact of his critical research
perspective in sharpening his observation of the clinical situation, the
therapeutic relationship, and the relative value of interpretation. Plenty of
clinical examples illuminate the theoretical distinctions and lead to the
following chapters in search of the necessary theoretical advances. This book
breaks new ground in the extent of its integration of contemporary
developmental research and psychoanalytic theory applied to clinical practice."
— Jill Savege Scharff, M.D.
INTRICATE
ENGAGEMENTS
Table of Contents
Foreword by Philip
Erdberg, Ph.D.
- Part I: Searching for Principles
- Discovering the Patient
- Guidelines for Theory and Action
- Searching for Common Principles
- The Facilitating Relationship in Clinical Practice
- Reconstituting the Analytic Relationship
- The Facilitating Relationship in Childhood
- Applications to the Therapeutic Situation
- Part II: A Relationship-Unit Model
- The Self and Object Constellation
- Assessment and Intervention
- A Tool for Organizing Clinical Data
- Part III: The Model Applied
- The Analytic Field
- Analytic Change
 
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