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Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in Clinical Practice by William F. Cornell, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 166 pp.

Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2021, 81, (422–425) 2021 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/21 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Review Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in Clinical Practice by William F. Cornell, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 166 pp. I have to confess that at the time I volunteered to review this book I was not familiar with the author’s name, and I did not really know what to expect. This only testifies to my ignorance, as Dr. William Cornell is a distinguished and seasoned psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor, who has published numerous papers and several books. In the 40 years of experience as both a clinician and an author, Dr. Cornell has built a crossover between psychoanalysis and other psychotherapy traditions, like transactional analysis and somatic therapy. Throughout this book, I appreciated the freshness of this approach of liberated, undogmatic exploration of what could be most helpful to the patient, whichever school of thought it might be coming from. I was initially attracted by the term ‘‘self-examination’’ in the title of the book. As everything started with Freud’s attempt to overcome his depression, his self-analysis (Anzieu, 1986; Bonomi, 2015), I hoped this book would be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in Clinical Practice by William F. Cornell, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 166 pp.

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 2021
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1057/s11231-021-09300-3
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2021, 81, (422–425) 2021 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/21 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Review Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in Clinical Practice by William F. Cornell, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 166 pp. I have to confess that at the time I volunteered to review this book I was not familiar with the author’s name, and I did not really know what to expect. This only testifies to my ignorance, as Dr. William Cornell is a distinguished and seasoned psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor, who has published numerous papers and several books. In the 40 years of experience as both a clinician and an author, Dr. Cornell has built a crossover between psychoanalysis and other psychotherapy traditions, like transactional analysis and somatic therapy. Throughout this book, I appreciated the freshness of this approach of liberated, undogmatic exploration of what could be most helpful to the patient, whichever school of thought it might be coming from. I was initially attracted by the term ‘‘self-examination’’ in the title of the book. As everything started with Freud’s attempt to overcome his depression, his self-analysis (Anzieu, 1986; Bonomi, 2015), I hoped this book would be

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Published: Sep 1, 2021

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