Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory Concept and Future Development Psychoanalytic Field Theory Book Series

Field Theory is a powerful and growing paradigm within psychoanalysis, but has previously been split between various schools of thought with little overlap. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors from across all perspectives on Field Theory examine its uniting factors and set out future developments and directions for the paradigm within psychoanalysis.

Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory represents the work developed for the first international meeting of the International Field Theory Association. Founded in 2015 to offer a community for those interested in psychoanalytic field theory and promote its understanding and further development, IFTA recognizes all models of psychoanalytic field theory and seeks to foster communication amongst psychoanalysts working in different models, languages and parts of the world.

At the first ever meeting of IFTA, an international group of psychoanalysts participated in a roundtable discussion of the different contemporary models of psychoanalytic field theory. Each participant wrote a paper in advance of the meeting, which were all shared among the group beforehand and then discussed together. These feature as the chapters in this volume, whilst a thirteenth member offers a unifying overview of all the papers. Each chapter provides new, contemporary ways of approaching field theory. Key excerpts from the discussion of the meeting are also featured throughout to give a flavour of the collaborative efforts of the participants. The emphasis of this book is on generating mutual understanding of the different models of field theory, their underlying concepts, and heuristic principles.

Drawing on insights from literature, critical theory and philosophy as well as psychoanalysis, this book sets out a program for the future of Field Theory. Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory will appeal topsychoanalysts and mental health care practitioners as well as academicians in philosophy, psychology and literature.

Introduction; The Field Evolves Antonino Ferro; Not All Field Theories Are The Same: The Impact Of Listening Perspectives And Models Of Transference James Fosshage; Dialectics of transferential interpretation and analytic fieldBeatriz de Leon de Bernardi; About The Theory Of The Analytic Field Elsa Rapoport de Aisemberg; Notes On Transformations In Hallucinosis Giuseppe Civitarese; Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Good, Bad, Or Indifferent? Martin Silverman; Dreams And Non-Dreams: A Study On The Field Of Dreaming Roosevelt Cassorla; Analytic Field Theory –A Dialogical Approach, A Pluralistic Perspective, And The Attempt At A New Definition by Marco Conci; The Third Model of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory S. Montana Katz; The Analytic Field As A Resonator And Instrument For Revealing The Presence Of Other Fields Claudio Neri; Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field Donnel Stern; Field Theories And Process Theories Juan Tubert-Oklander; Commentary on Field Theory Presentations Joseph Lichtenberg.

S. Montana Katz, Roosevelt Cassorla and Giuseppe Civitarese are psychoanalysts and the Founding Directors of the International Field Theory Association.