If I could study with any living therapist, Robert Stolorow is one of three people I would pay to learn from (the others are Donna Orange [a frequent Stolorow collaborator] and Diana Fosha). [Well, okay, there is a fourth one, another frequent Stolorow collaborator, George Atwood.] Throughout his career, he has emphasized the phenomenological experience … Read more
George Atwood is one of the co-founders (with Robert Stolorow and others) of the intersubjective systems theory model of post-Freudian, relational psychoanalysis. He is professor emeritus in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. He also is the author of The Abyss of Madness (2011), one of the best books I have ever read about working with … Read more
In his early work, when Sigmund Freud still favored the “seduction theory” of neuroses, which was based in suppressed and/or repressed childhood experiences of sexual trauma, Freud often credited Pierre Janet for creating ideas such as dissociation and the subconscious. Freud soon dropped his seduction theory model in favor of an unconscious drives theory (wish … Read more
This week’s episode of the Shrink Rap Radio podcast features Pat Ogden, the founder behind Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Her first, landmark book is Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (2006). Her second book, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment, is due out in spring, 2014 Shrink Rap Radio #399 – Trauma and … Read more
[NOTE: I originally posted this in August of 2012. However, I am seeing clients who would fall into the definition Atwood uses for “madness.”] I am reading George Atwood’s The Abyss of Madness (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series) (2011) as part of an intersubjective, relational psychoanalytic study group I have been a part of for the last … Read more