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Author: Donnel Stern
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.521kg
ISBN: 9781138788404
ISBN 10: 1138788406
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 17 June 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Donnel Stern's Relational Freedom is a welcome contribution to the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in which he reinvents the concept of emergence as the experiential component of the interpersonal field, and brings the concept to life in his many, in depth, clinical discussions. What I find truly remarkable about this book is that it offers a way of encompassing relational theory, field theory, Bionian concepts, and modern Freudian thinking, while so many others deal with these perspectives as if they are at war with one another. - Thomas Ogden, M. D., Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California Stern's great ability to make very complex concepts comprehensible is once again in evidence in this marvelous book of rare depth. This is the book every insider will want to read and secretly wish they had written. It is replete with delightful clinical vignettes that reveal the Author's method of working: free, creative, unconstrained by preconstructed models, and always open to whatever emerges in psychoanalytic session (or as Bion would put it to whatever 'evolves' in the session). Rarely have I felt my heart race whilst reading clinical material and such an urge to read on as though these were the final pages of a thriller. For me, this is a truly exhilarating read that creates a wider field in which even the reader becomes co-protagonist. The scenes and events described are ones that come to life and are lived out during the session, creating a new reality. I thoroughly enjoyed Stern's delightfully lively and creative in-depth description of the field concept. He succeeds in lending a poetic tone to concepts that create a new paradigm for psychoanalysis. Stern shows in a vivid manner how the analytic field comes alive in each and every session. I would like to underscore Stern's skill at creating a field with the many authors who have contributed in various ways to the development of this very concept. What is more, the Author reveals his capacity to extend the dialogue and implicitly also the field with theorists who hold different perspectives: my personal thanks go to Stern for proposing a family of thinkers I had not had the chance to place on own my family tree of concepts. Stern writes in such a way as to make the Authors in his cast come alive to the reader: he succeeds in breathing vitality into what we knew only in a rather arid way, transforming it, one might say, into today's language and into live holographic presences. It is within the freedom of the field that new uncensored ideas and concepts can emerge. In short, if a book may be described as food for thought, this one is a veritable banquet! Antonino Ferro, MD, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society Stern's great ability to make very complex concepts comprehensible is once again in evidence in this marvelous book of rare depth. This is the book every insider will want to read and secretly wish they had written. It is replete with delightful clinical vignettes that reveal the author's method of working: free, creative, unconstrained by preconstructed models, and always open to whatever emerges in psychoanalytic session (or as Bion would put it to whatever 'evolves' in the session). Rarely have I felt my heart race whilst reading clinical material and such an urge to read on as though these were the final pages of a thriller. If a book may be described as food for thought, this one is a veritable banquet! - Antonino Ferro, MD, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society
Author Information
Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D.., a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, serves as Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, and Adjunct Clinical Professor and Consultant at the NYU Postodoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1997) and Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment (Routledge, 2010). He is the founder and editor of ""Psychoanalysis in a New Key,"" a book series published by Routledge.
