Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis A Guide to Practice, Study and Research Relational Perspectives Book Series

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis provides a concise and clearly presented handbook for those who wish to study, practice, and teach the core competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis, offering primary skills in a straightforward and useable format.

Roy E. Barsness offers his own research on technique and grounds these methods with superb contributions from several master clinicians, expanding the seven primary competencies: therapeutic intent, therapeutic stance/attitude; analytic listening/attunement; working within the relational dynamic, the use of patterning and linking; the importance of working through the inevitable enactments and ruptures inherent in the work; and the use of courageous speech through disciplined spontaneity.

In addition, this book presents a history of Relational Psychoanalysis, offers a study on the efficacy of Relational Psychoanalysis, proposes a new relational ethic and attends to the the importance of self-care in working within the intensity of such a model. A critique of the model is offered, issues of race and culture and gender and sexuality are addressed, as well as current research on neurobiology and its impact in the development of the model. The reader will find the writings easy to understand and accessible, and immediately applicable within the therapeutic setting. The practical emphasis of this text will also offer non-analytic clinicians a window into the mind of the analyst, while increasing the settings and populations in which this model can be applied and facilitate integration with other therapeutic orientations.

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis is inspired by Barsness? students; he was motivated to create a primary text that could assist them in understanding the often complex and abstract models of Relational Psychoanalysis. Relevant for graduate students and novice therapists as well as experienced clinicians, supervisors, and professors, this textbook offers a foundational curriculum for the study of Relational Psychoanalysis, presents analytic technique with as clear a frame and purpose as evidenced based models, and serves as a gateway into further study in Relational Psychoanalyses.

PART I: CURRENT RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS

Chapter 1: CORE COMPETENCIES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Roy Barsness

Chapter 2: THE CASE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: EXPLORING THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE John Thor Cornelius

Chapter 3: THE RELATIONAL TRADITION: LANDSCAPE AND CANON Adrienne Harris

PART II: CORE COMPETENCIES

Chapter 4: COMPETENCY ONE: THERAPEUTIC INTENT Steven Tublin

Chapter 5:COMPETENCY TWO: THERAPEUTIC STANCE/ATTITUDE Nancy McWilliams

Chapter 6:COMPETENCY THREE: DEEP LISTENING/AFFECTIVE ATTUNEMENT Stuart Pizer

Chapter 7:COMPETENCY FOUR: RELATIONAL DYNAMIC: THE THERE AND THEN AND THE HERE AND NOW Lewis Aron

Chapter 8:COMPETENCY FIVE: PATTERNING AND LINKING Steven Knoblauch

Chapter 9:COMPETENCY SIX: REPETITION AND WORKING THROUGH Karen Maroda

Chapter 10:COMPETENCY SEVEN: COURAGEOUS SPEECH/DISPLINED SPONTANEITY Roy Barsness & Brad Strawn

Chapter 11: CORE COMPETENCY: LOVE Daniel Shaw

PART III: NEW FRONTIERS

Chapter 12: RELATIONAL ETHICS Roy Barsness & Brad Strawn

Chapter 13: THE BRAIN AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Allan Schore

Chapter 14: SEXUALITY AND GENDER Karol Marshall & Roy Barsness

Chapter 15: CULTURECONSIDERATIONS Pratyusha Tummala-Narra

Chapter 16: SELF CARE Roy Barsness & Anita Sorenson

PART IV: A CRITIQUE

Chapter 17: CRITIQUE OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS Jon Mills with a postscript by Steven Kuchuck

Roy E. Barsness is a Professor at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, the Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis and Christian Theology, and the Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Group, Seattle. He was formally the Clinical Director at Seattle Pacific University and a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He has been in independent practice for over 25 years.