Making Sense Together: The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy

280 Pages·2009·12.44 MB·English

by  Peter Buirski

Making Sense Together

Psychoanalytic understanding is making sense together.
Donna Orange, Emotional Understanding

Making Sense Together
The Intersubjective Approach to
Psychotherapy
Peter Buirski, Ph.D.
and
Pamela Haglund, Psy.D.
JASON ARONSON
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK
A JASON ARONSON BOOK
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Buirski, Peter.
Making sense together: the intersubjective approach to psychotherapy I by
Peter Buirski & Pamela Haglund.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Intersubjectivity. 2. Psychoanalysis. 3. Psychotherapist and patient.
I. Haglund, Pamela. II. Title
RC506.B84 2001
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This book is dedicated to our families, with love and gratitude.
Cathy, Max, and Diana Buirski
Norman, Gillian, Eric, and Hallie Haglund

Contents
Foreword xi
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D.
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
I Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity I
2 The Intersubjective Sensibility 25
3 Understanding the Patient's State of Mind: Mfect
Attunement and the Empathic-Introspective Stance 49
4 The Centrality of Relationship 75
5 Practicing Intersubjectively 101
6 The Articulation of Subjective Experience I23