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This review is from: The Seduction Theory in Its Second Century: Trauma, Fantasy, and Reality Today (Committee of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations Monograph) (Paperback)
"Not many books can be stamped 'significant' from their inception, but this one can. It has a measure of historic significance by reason of drawing together contributions from the major psychoanalytic groups operating in the United States. Moreover, it achieves a high level of conceptual and clinical significance in the scope of its subject matter and the competence of the respective contributors. The background of the place of seduction in Freud's thinking and the various perspectives of the ensuing controversies swirling around the seduction hypothesis
and its supposed abandonment are thoroughly explored in considerable depth. The major focus is on the theory and treatment of trauma---explored and discussed from the vantage points of a wide range of theoretical perspectives. The degree of openness and willingness to listen and discuss is laudatory. The contributions cast a wide net, focusing at one level on the traumas of everyday life that arguably form the stuff of the clinical experience of everyday analysis, and at another level on the more severe traumas in seriously disturbed patients that leave their residues of murderous rage and severe personality impairment. The contributions maintain a high level of discourse and provide a remarkable overview of the history and understanding of seduction-trauma in psychopathology and analytic theory. I have not seen a better synthesis of points of view and issues related to the themes of seduction and trauma than this. Analysts treating patients suffering from the effects of seduction and/or trauma will value these well-integrated contributions, and students of the sexual abuse and traumatization of children will encounter a rich mine of theoretical insights and clinical applications that will fully reward their perusal of these pages. The editor and organizers of this conference are to be congratulated!" -- W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East; University Professor of Psychoanalysis, Boston College; author of The Therapeutic Alliance and Freud and Psychoanalysis, and other books.
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This review is from: The Seduction Theory in Its Second Century: Trauma, Fantasy, and Reality Today (Committee of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations Monograph) (Paperback)
THE SEDUCTION THEORY IN ITS SECOND CENTURY:
TRAUMA, FANTASY, AND REALITY TODAY Edited with an Introduction and Postscript by Michael I. Good, M.D. Committee of Pychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations, Monograph I Arnold D. Richards, M.D. Book Series Editor CONTENTS: Series Editor's Foreword Arnold D. Richards, M.D. Preface and Acknowledgments Contributors Editor's Introduction: The Roots of the Seduction Theory: A Perspective from Genesis to Scientia Sexualis Michael I. Good, M.D. Part I: WHAT IS THE SEDUCTION HYPOTHESIS? WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY? Introduction Chair: Owen Renik, M.D. 1. The Seductions of History: Sexual Trauma in Freud's Theory and Historiography George J. Makari, M.D. 2. The Ambiguity of Seduction in the Development of Freud's Thinking Jay Greenberg, Ph.D. Discussion of "What is the Seduction Hypothesis? Why Are We Talking about it Today?" Helen C. Meyers, M.D. On Literal Misreadings and Reconstructed Truths Henry F. Smith, M.D. General Discussion and Audience Questions Part II: ANALYSTS AT WORK WITH PATIENTS WHOSE LIVES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY THE TRAUMAS OF EVERYDAY LIFE Introduction Chair: Arnold M. Cooper, M.D. 3. Trauma and Pathogenesis Jacob A. Arlow, M.D. 4. Psychological Trauma of Everyday Life Scott Dowling, M.D. 5. What Happened Matters, and What Really Happened Really Matters Marylou Lionells, Ph.D. 6. Traumas of Everyday LIfe: A Self Psychological Perspective on the Neuroses Anna Ornstein, M.D. Discussion of Analysts at Work with Patients whose Lives are Characterized by the Traumas of Everyday Life Robert Michels, M.D. General Discussion Part III: ANALYSTS AT WORK WITH SEVERELY TRAUMATIZED PATIENTS Introduction: The Analytic Aims in the Treatment of Severely Traumatized Patients Chair: Leon Hoffman 7. Living the Experience of Childhood Seduction: A Brief Account of an Unusual Psychoanalysis Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. 8. A View of Severely Traumatized Patients--Soul Murder Victims Leonard Shengold, M.D. Discussion of Papers by Fonagy and Shengold Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. General Discussion Part IV: CONCLUDING PAPERS Introduction Chair: Arnold Rothstein, M.D. 9. Freud and the Seduction Hypothesis Steven J. Ellman, Ph.D. 10. The Seduction Hypothesis Axis: What's External, What's Internal, and What's In Between? Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D. Postscript The Seduction Theory: A Leitmotif in the Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory, But Is It a Testable Hypothesis? Michael I. Good, M.D. Name Index Subject Index 318 pages + xxi International Universities Press 59 Boston Post Road Madison, CT 06443 U.S.A. _____
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Here and Now in Lieu of Early Seduction,
This review is from: The Seduction Theory in Its Second Century: Trauma, Fantasy, and Reality Today (Committee of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations Monograph) (Paperback)
This excellent book begins with a comprehensive new, needed and fascinatingly pregnant restatement by Michael I. Good of the history of the Seduction Theory, well after the importantly unsettling 1984 contribution by Jeffrey Masson. A many-voiced chorus of distinguished contributors brings forward (among other things) the psychoanalytically fertile distinction between "abuse" (in which the victim may be utterly passive and wholly noncontributory, from the perspective of the Law), and the "seduction" which has the specific deferred effect peculiar to psychoanalytic inquiry. This distinction (among other elements of the book) leads to an illumination of "the Freudian thing" (in the words of Lacan) with its innovative departure from the "whodunnit" type of explanation the police seek, and also from a physician's investigation into "what brought it on" and -- most importantly -- from the "interrogation" of Nature which began with Francis Bacon's 17th "Novum Organum." That notion of Science is exemplified by Freud's early Seduction Theory itself. In abandoning the Seduction Theory which psychoanalytic evidence cannot verify (according to contributor Robert Michels), the reader may conclude that Freud adopted a psychoanalytic "Novum Organum," a new kind of inquiry into the phenomena, neither Science nor Law nor a police investigation into abuse or trauma (bringing to mind the image of Sherlock Holmes with his big magnifying glass), but what Theodor Reik called "Listening with the Third Ear," (bringing to mind an intent listener with a large ear horn), initiated by a seductive invitation by the analyst to "say what comes to mind," a seduction which itself sets up one of the subjects of the psychoanalytic working-through. Louis H. Hamel, Jr., Esq.
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