Table Of Content“Psychoanalytic Credos is an extraordinary psychoanalytic book. Editor
Jill Salberg has assembled a group of highly influential psychoanalysts who
have played a major role in shaping what we think of as contemporary
psychoanalytic thought. They are wonderfully candid in describing their
personal journeys. Indeed, many of them are personal friends of mine, yet I
found myself reading fascinating stories that I had never heard before. All
describe their struggles to define what kind of analyst they would ultimately
become. I was deeply moved as I heard their stories and found myself
identifying with so much of what they said. This book is a must read for
those who care about the future of psychoanalysis. I consider
Psychoanalytic Credos one of the major contributions to our field.”
—Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Author of Love and
Hate in the Analytic Setting
“Psychoanalytic Credos is a beautiful and embracing book. Inviting
analysts to reflect upon their evolving mission and vision, its query is
located at the nexus of ethics, theory, culture, reason and faith. In
welcoming commentary from diverse perspectives, international thinkers,
eminent elders and from more youthful social critics, this text is both broad
and deep. Salberg’s notion should be taken up by us all: let’s keep writing,
reading, and teaching these credos throughout our professional lives.”
—Dr. Sue Grand, faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; a fellow at the
Institute for Psychology and the Other, and a visiting scholar
at the Psychoanalytic Institute for Northern California
“Jill Salberg provides a rare opportunity to listen in as 27 psychoanalysts,
spanning 5 decades, across 4 continents, share how they think about their
development and work. The credos assembled here vividly convey the
fashioning of psychoanalytic identities and what each analyst holds dear.
A wonderful way to hear the prosody of psychoanalytic practices.”
—Dodi Goldman is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the
William Alanson White Institute and author of “A Beholder’s
Share: essays on Winnicott and the psychoanalytic imagination”
“In Jill Salberg’s lovingly curated collection of credos, we have a veritable
Canterbury Tales of psychoanalysis. Each voice in turn holds us in its spell
as we hear of the roads these pilgrims have traveled. To accompany all
twenty-seven wayfarers on their journeys spanning more than fifty years of
psychoanalytic history is to witness the intergenerational transmission of
ideas as well as the transmigration of souls in our field.”
—Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Psychoanalytic Credos
Developing a psychoanalytic credo, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen
and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the
scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent’s
original Credo essay, 27 psychoanalysts were asked to write their credo and/
or their psychoanalytic journey. This book represents a multi-theoretical and
multi-generational grouping, trained at different institutes, during different
eras (grouped by decades 1960–2000) and across cultures. They are drawn
from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary
Freudian and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don’t easily
fit categorization. This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in
training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training
and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey.
Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She edited Good Enough Endings:
Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational
Perspectives, and co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair
and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Trans-
generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference,
both of which received the Gradiva Award for best edited books (2018). She
is in private practice in Manhattan.
Relational Perspectives Book Series
Adrienne Harris, Steven Kuchuck, & Eyal Rozmarin
Series Editors
Stephen Mitchell
Founding Editor
Lewis Aron
Editor Emeritus
The Relational Perspectives Book Series (RPBS) publishes books that grow out of or
contribute to the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. The term relational
psychoanalysis was first used by Greenberg and Mitchell1 to bridge the traditions of in-
terpersonal relations, as developed within interpersonal psychoanalysis and object rela-
tions, as developed within contemporary British theory. But, under the seminal work of the
late Stephen A. Mitchell, the term relational psychoanalysis grew and began to accrue to
itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries—interpersonal psy-
choanalysis, object relations theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, feminism,
queer theory, sociocultural studies, and elements of contemporary Freudian and Kleinian
thought—flow into this tradition, which understands relational configurations between self
and others, both real and fantasied, as the primary subject of psychoanalytic investigation.
We refer to the relational tradition, rather than to a relational school, to highlight that
we are identifying a trend, a tendency within contemporary psychoanalysis, not a more
formally organized or coherent school or system of beliefs. Our use of the term relational
signifies a dimension of theory and practice that has become salient across the wide
spectrum of contemporary psychoanalysis. Now under the editorial supervision of
Adrienne Harris, Steven Kuchuck, and Eyal Rozmarin, the Relational Perspectives Book
Series originated in 1990 under the editorial eye of the late Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell
was the most prolific and influential of the originators of the relational tradition.
Committed to dialogue among psychoanalysts, he abhorred the authoritarianism that
dictated adherence to a rigid set of beliefs or technical restrictions. He championed open
discussion, comparative and integrative approaches, and promoted new voices across the
generations. Mitchell was later joined by the late Lewis Aron, also a visionary and in-
fluential writer, teacher, and leading thinker in relational psychoanalysis.
Included in the Relational Perspectives Book Series are authors and works that
come from within the relational tradition, those that extend and develop that tra-
dition, and works that critique relational approaches or compare and contrast them
with alternative points of view. The series includes our most distinguished senior
psychoanalysts, along with younger contributors who bring fresh vision. Our aim is
to enable a deepening of relational thinking while reaching across disciplinary and
social boundaries in order to foster an inclusive and international literature.
A full list of titles in this series is available at https://www.routledge.com/
Relational-Perspectives-Book-Series/book-series/LEARPBS
Note
1 Greenberg, J., & Mitchell, S. (1983). Object relations in psychoanalytic theory.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Psychoanalytic Credos
Personal and Professional Journeys of
Psychoanalysts
Jill Salberg
First published 2022
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Title: Psychoanalytic credos : personal and professional journeys of
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Contents
List of Contributors x
Acknowledgments xx
Editor’s Introduction 1
JILL SALBERG
Section 1
1960s 7
1 My Journey 9
SHELDON BACH
2 My Journey: Haydée Faimberg Interviewed by and in
Conversation with Graciela V. Consoli and Ezequiel A.
Jaroslavsky 14
HAYDÉE FAIMBERG
Section II
1970s 29
3 What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road 31
RICARDO BERNARDI
4 What is theory? 41
CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS
5 My Psychoanalytic Journey 51
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
6 An Autobiographical Fragment 59
JAY GREENBERG
viii Contents
7 Credo: Psychoanalysis as a Wisdom Tradition 70
NANCY MCWILLIAMS
8 Becoming the Analysts That We Turn Out to Be 78
MICHAEL PARSONS
Section III
1980s 87
9 Credo: Mutuality and Asymmetry 89
LEWIS ARON
10 Credo: The Sufferings of the World 96
JESSICA BENJAMIN
11 Credo: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis 105
STEVEN H. COOPER
12 Credo 113
ADRIENNE HARRIS
13 Reflections on the Way I Practice Psychoanalysis 121
THOMAS H. OGDEN
14 Toward a Humanistic Psychoanalysis 128
DONNA ORANGE
15 Becoming and Being a Psychoanalyst: Credo as
Ongoing Journey 134
JILL SALBERG
16 Against the Grain: On Challenging Assumptions,
Bridging Theories, Practicing Self-Critique, Exposing
Underbellies, and Doing the Right Thing 142
JOYCE SLOCHOWER
Section IV
1990s 153
17 Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents 155
MARY T. BRADY
Contents ix
18 Credo: So Our Lives Glide On 160
KEN CORBETT
19 Peasants, Fields, and Expanding Horizons in
Psychoanalysis 169
ELIZABETH A. CORPT
20 Analytic Eroticism 176
DIANNE ELISE
21 Credo quia absurdum 184
BRUCE REIS
22 Working It Out: Development, Politics,
Multidisciplinarity 191
STEPHEN SELIGMAN
23 Credo: In Search of Transformation 200
MELANIE SUCHET
Section V
2000s 207
24 On Truthlessness—Or, All in the Game 209
STEPHEN HARTMAN
25 My Psychoanalytic Search for Freedom 218
ILANA LAOR
26 The Risk of Analysis 226
AVGI SAKETOPOULOU
27 Credo: Relationality and the Collective—A
Psychoanalytic Journey in Context 234
CHANA ULLMAN
Index 243
