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Paul L. Wachtel: Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society

Paul L. Wachtel: Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2015, 75, (333–350) © 2015 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/15 www.palgrave-journals.com/ajp/ Book Reviews Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society, by Paul L. Wachtel, Routledge, New York, 2014, 243pp. Paul Wachtel’s most recent book, Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self, represents a summation on many levels. Wachtel has been contributing to progressive experience-near thinking in psychoanalysis since the early 70s. This text summarizes virtually his entire corpus of work. Of course it is no mere summation. It integrates many related facets of his thinking from epistemology, clinical psychol- ogy, psychoanalysis, relational theory, cyclical dynamics, and the clinical issues of inequality and injustice. Over many years Wachtel’s quiet, personal voice has contributed to a growing shift in our thinking, one that promotes integration over the entire spectrum of psycho- analytic thought. He was the impetus for the organization “Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,” an organization steadily growing in numbers and influence. He certainly was the first psychoanalyst who saw compatibilities between psychoanalysis and behaviorism and his vision across the many progressive strains in recent psychoanalytic thinking is, as reviewers http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Paul L. Wachtel: Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society

Danielian, Jack
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 75 (3) – Sep 10, 2015
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Copyright © 2015 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2015, 75, (333–350) © 2015 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/15 www.palgrave-journals.com/ajp/ Book Reviews Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society, by Paul L. Wachtel, Routledge, New York, 2014, 243pp. Paul Wachtel’s most recent book, Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self, represents a summation on many levels. Wachtel has been contributing to progressive experience-near thinking in psychoanalysis since the early 70s. This text summarizes virtually his entire corpus of work. Of course it is no mere summation. It integrates many related facets of his thinking from epistemology, clinical psychol- ogy, psychoanalysis, relational theory, cyclical dynamics, and the clinical issues of inequality and injustice. Over many years Wachtel’s quiet, personal voice has contributed to a growing shift in our thinking, one that promotes integration over the entire spectrum of psycho- analytic thought. He was the impetus for the organization “Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,” an organization steadily growing in numbers and influence. He certainly was the first psychoanalyst who saw compatibilities between psychoanalysis and behaviorism and his vision across the many progressive strains in recent psychoanalytic thinking is, as reviewers

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