Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing: A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process - Paperback

by Steven Stern (Author)

Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book's central theme is that of analytic needed relationships-the science and art of co-creating unique, evolving relational experiences fitted to each patient's implicit therapeutic aims and needs. It offers diverse clinical examples in which you will find Stern engaging with each of his patients in idiomatic, spontaneous ways as he attempts to contour interventions to the evolving analytic situation.

Author Biography

Steven Stern, PsyD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Maine Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a member of the International Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He practices in Portland, Maine with specializations in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, couples therapy, and clinical supervision.