Building BridgesThe Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Paradox and Negotiation in Development and Analysis; 1. The Negotiation of Paradox in the Analytic Process; 2. ""I Wish You Were My Father!"": Negotiating Potential Space; 3. Multiplicity, Paradox, and the Creative Self; 4. The Capacity to TolerateParadox: Bridging Multiplicity Within the Self; 5. Facing the Nonnegotiable; Part II: Paradox and Negotiation in Wider Contexts: Genders, Species, Nations; 6. A Wider Context. . . and a Critique of ""Tribal"" Gender Categories
7. Paradox and Negotiation in a Wider Context: Species8. Paradox and Negotiation in a Wider Context: Nations; Epilogue: The Scent of a Spring Day -- References; Index
Summary
In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian perspective that comprehends paradox as the condition for preserving an intrapsychic and relational ""potential space, "" Pizer explores how the straddling of paradox requires an ongoing process of negotiation and demonstrates how such negotiation articulates the creative potential within the potential space of analysis. Following careful review of Winnicott's perspective on paradox-via the page
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index
