Steven Kuchuck

Psychoanalysis is a vibrant clinical process that continues to reinvent itself, finding new meanings for its methodology, as the experience and concerns of its participants change and develop.

object relations theory –

intersubjectivity theory) emphasized a person’s embeddedness in the social context (rather than the isolated individual) as the primary unit of study

Relational, to also refer to a newly developing perspective – in some ways overlapping with but also distinct from the earlier theories that he and Greenberg had included under the heading of relational psychoanalysis

object relations theory

a theory with more emphasis on interpersonal, here-and-now, in-the-room dynamics than unconscious fantasy, as well as feminist, queer, gender and other social, philosophical and more recently political, cross-cultural and attachment theories

Relational analyst Steven Cooper uses the term ‘bridge theory’ to address the numerous concepts that cross boundaries and become integrated into different orientations (Cooper, 2016). This is one way to define the spread of ideas I am describing.

opens up endless possibilities for development as cultural factors shift and our understanding of gender, sexuality and other aspects of the subjective self continues to expand.

throwing away the book’ (1994, p. 188), that is, engaging a professional stance that represents a departure from the analyst’s usual way of working, often more heavily impacted by the therapist’s subjectivity – anything to do with the therapist’s physical, psychological or spiritual being.

focuses on the analyst’s subjectivity