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“Psychoanalytic Credos is an extraordinary psychoanalytic book. Editor Jill Salberg has assembled a group of highly influential psychoanalysts who have played a major role in shaping what we think of as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They are wonderfully candid in describing their personal journeys. Indeed, many of them are personal friends of mine, yet I found myself reading fascinating stories that I had never heard before. All describe their struggles to define what kind of analyst they would ultimately become. I was deeply moved as I heard their stories and found myself identifying with so much of what they said. This book is a must read for those who care about the future of psychoanalysis. I consider Psychoanalytic Credos one of the major contributions to our field.” —Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Author of Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting “Psychoanalytic Credos is a beautiful and embracing book. Inviting analysts to reflect upon their evolving mission and vision, its query is located at the nexus of ethics, theory, culture, reason and faith. In welcoming commentary from diverse perspectives, international thinkers, eminent elders and from more youthful social critics, this text is both broad and deep. Salberg’s notion should be taken up by us all: let’s keep writing, reading, and teaching these credos throughout our professional lives.” —Dr. Sue Grand, faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; a fellow at the Institute for Psychology and the Other, and a visiting scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute for Northern California “Jill Salberg provides a rare opportunity to listen in as 27 psychoanalysts, spanning 5 decades, across 4 continents, share how they think about their development and work. The credos assembled here vividly convey the fashioning of psychoanalytic identities and what each analyst holds dear. A wonderful way to hear the prosody of psychoanalytic practices.” —Dodi Goldman is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and author of “A Beholder’s Share: essays on Winnicott and the psychoanalytic imagination” “In Jill Salberg’s lovingly curated collection of credos, we have a veritable Canterbury Tales of psychoanalysis. Each voice in turn holds us in its spell as we hear of the roads these pilgrims have traveled. To accompany all twenty-seven wayfarers on their journeys spanning more than fifty years of psychoanalytic history is to witness the intergenerational transmission of ideas as well as the transmigration of souls in our field.” —Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute Psychoanalytic Credos Developing a psychoanalytic credo, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent’s original Credo essay, 27 psychoanalysts were asked to write their credo and/ or their psychoanalytic journey. This book represents a multi-theoretical and multi-generational grouping, trained at different institutes, during different eras (grouped by decades 1960–2000) and across cultures. They are drawn from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary Freudian and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don’t easily fit categorization. This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey. Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She edited Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives, and co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Trans- generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, both of which received the Gradiva Award for best edited books (2018). She is in private practice in Manhattan. Relational Perspectives Book Series Adrienne Harris, Steven Kuchuck, & Eyal Rozmarin Series Editors Stephen Mitchell Founding Editor Lewis Aron Editor Emeritus The Relational Perspectives Book Series (RPBS) publishes books that grow out of or contribute to the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. The term relational psychoanalysis was first used by Greenberg and Mitchell1 to bridge the traditions of in- terpersonal relations, as developed within interpersonal psychoanalysis and object rela- tions, as developed within contemporary British theory. But, under the seminal work of the late Stephen A. Mitchell, the term relational psychoanalysis grew and began to accrue to itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries—interpersonal psy- choanalysis, object relations theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, feminism, queer theory, sociocultural studies, and elements of contemporary Freudian and Kleinian thought—flow into this tradition, which understands relational configurations between self and others, both real and fantasied, as the primary subject of psychoanalytic investigation. We refer to the relational tradition, rather than to a relational school, to highlight that we are identifying a trend, a tendency within contemporary psychoanalysis, not a more formally organized or coherent school or system of beliefs. Our use of the term relational signifies a dimension of theory and practice that has become salient across the wide spectrum of contemporary psychoanalysis. Now under the editorial supervision of Adrienne Harris, Steven Kuchuck, and Eyal Rozmarin, the Relational Perspectives Book Series originated in 1990 under the editorial eye of the late Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell was the most prolific and influential of the originators of the relational tradition. Committed to dialogue among psychoanalysts, he abhorred the authoritarianism that dictated adherence to a rigid set of beliefs or technical restrictions. He championed open discussion, comparative and integrative approaches, and promoted new voices across the generations. Mitchell was later joined by the late Lewis Aron, also a visionary and in- fluential writer, teacher, and leading thinker in relational psychoanalysis. Included in the Relational Perspectives Book Series are authors and works that come from within the relational tradition, those that extend and develop that tra- dition, and works that critique relational approaches or compare and contrast them with alternative points of view. The series includes our most distinguished senior psychoanalysts, along with younger contributors who bring fresh vision. Our aim is to enable a deepening of relational thinking while reaching across disciplinary and social boundaries in order to foster an inclusive and international literature. A full list of titles in this series is available at https://www.routledge.com/ Relational-Perspectives-Book-Series/book-series/LEARPBS Note 1 Greenberg, J., & Mitchell, S. (1983). Object relations in psychoanalytic theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Psychoanalytic Credos Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts Jill Salberg First published 2022 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Jill Salberg individual chapters, the contributors The right of Jill Salberg to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Names: Salberg, Jill, editor. Title: Psychoanalytic credos : personal and professional journeys of psychoanalysts / edited by Jill Salberg. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2021027487 (print) | LCCN 2021027488 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032072708 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032054728 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003206248 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysts‐‐Anecdotes. | Psychoanalysts‐‐Attitudes. | Psychoanalysis‐‐Philosophy. | Psychoanalysis‐‐Vocational guidance. Classification: LCC BF175 .P783 2022 (print) | LCC BF175 (ebook) | DDC 150.19/5‐‐dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027487 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027488 ISBN: 978-1-032-07270-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-05472-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-20624-8 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003206248 Typeset in Times New Roman by MPS Limited, Dehradun Contents List of Contributors x Acknowledgments xx Editor’s Introduction 1 JILL SALBERG Section 1 1960s 7 1 My Journey 9 SHELDON BACH 2 My Journey: Haydée Faimberg Interviewed by and in Conversation with Graciela V. Consoli and Ezequiel A. Jaroslavsky 14 HAYDÉE FAIMBERG Section II 1970s 29 3 What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road 31 RICARDO BERNARDI 4 What is theory? 41 CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS 5 My Psychoanalytic Journey 51 STEPHEN A. MITCHELL 6 An Autobiographical Fragment 59 JAY GREENBERG viii Contents 7 Credo: Psychoanalysis as a Wisdom Tradition 70 NANCY MCWILLIAMS 8 Becoming the Analysts That We Turn Out to Be 78 MICHAEL PARSONS Section III 1980s 87 9 Credo: Mutuality and Asymmetry 89 LEWIS ARON 10 Credo: The Sufferings of the World 96 JESSICA BENJAMIN 11 Credo: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis 105 STEVEN H. COOPER 12 Credo 113 ADRIENNE HARRIS 13 Reflections on the Way I Practice Psychoanalysis 121 THOMAS H. OGDEN 14 Toward a Humanistic Psychoanalysis 128 DONNA ORANGE 15 Becoming and Being a Psychoanalyst: Credo as Ongoing Journey 134 JILL SALBERG 16 Against the Grain: On Challenging Assumptions, Bridging Theories, Practicing Self-Critique, Exposing Underbellies, and Doing the Right Thing 142 JOYCE SLOCHOWER Section IV 1990s 153 17 Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents 155 MARY T. BRADY Contents ix 18 Credo: So Our Lives Glide On 160 KEN CORBETT 19 Peasants, Fields, and Expanding Horizons in Psychoanalysis 169 ELIZABETH A. CORPT 20 Analytic Eroticism 176 DIANNE ELISE 21 Credo quia absurdum 184 BRUCE REIS 22 Working It Out: Development, Politics, Multidisciplinarity 191 STEPHEN SELIGMAN 23 Credo: In Search of Transformation 200 MELANIE SUCHET Section V 2000s 207 24 On Truthlessness—Or, All in the Game 209 STEPHEN HARTMAN 25 My Psychoanalytic Search for Freedom 218 ILANA LAOR 26 The Risk of Analysis 226 AVGI SAKETOPOULOU 27 Credo: Relationality and the Collective—A Psychoanalytic Journey in Context 234 CHANA ULLMAN Index 243

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