The Selected Papers of Arnold Goldberg, MD

The Selected Papers of Arnold Goldberg, MD, Edied by Gavin Mullen, PsyD

Reading Goldberg opens both mind and heart. His vision is powerfully and profoundly humane, transforming our understanding of people the world often scorns by revealing them to be fellow travelers trying to hold themselves together in the face of all but unendurable emotional pain. Goldberg also often surprises. He might discuss the structure of the self in terms of a railway, or take up the question of whether or not analysts should apologize to their patients, or lay out the vicissitudes of “wishy-washy” personalities. He is concerned with the way psychoanalytic theories at once empower and imprison the minds of those who employ them, writes about how morality uncannily invades clinical thinking and maps the boundaries between psychoanalysis and psychiatry.

—Jeffrey Stern, PhD, Faculty, Intstitute for Psychoanalysis, Editor, Psychoanalysis and Dreams (2015)

Arnold Goldberg, MD is perhaps the only one in psychoanalysis who blends the best of classical theory with the nuanced ideas of self psychology. As these selected papers illustrate, Goldberg’s work ranges from a detailed analysis of the models of the mind; to sensitive examinations of various forms of the perversions (and what they mean); to wide-ranging clinical examples of the theory; and to the philosophical context for theory and practice. His restless mind never settles for the ordinary and his insights are trenchant and endlessly engaging. No one has been more consistently interesting.

—Charles Strozier, PhD, Professor, John Jay College & Grad. Center, CUNY,
author, Heinz Kohut: The Making of A Psychoanalyst

 

Foreword

Chapter 1      Where I was From

Introduction

 A Fresh Look at Perverse Behavior (1975)

Some Countertransference Phenomena in the Analysis of Perversions (1977)

Chapter 2  Disorders in the Self-System

Introduction

On Waiting (1971)

The Wishy-Washy Personality (1986)

Disorders of Continuity (1990)

Chapter 3      Empathy

Introduction

On the Scientific Status of Empathy (1983)

Chapter 4       Philosophy

Introduction

The Tension between Realism and Relativism in Psychoanalysis (1984)

Chapter 5      Negotiation, Communication, Interaction and the Process of Understanding

Introduction

Psychoanalysis and Negotiation (1987)

A Shared View of the World (1989)

Changing Psychic Structure Through Treatment: From Empathy to Self Reflection (1989)

Between Empathy and Judgment (1999)

It Is All Interaction (1996)

Enactment as Understanding and as Misunderstanding (2002)

Chapter 6      The Correct Place of Pragmatism, Pluralism and Psychoanalysis

Introduction

One Theory or More (1981)

Self-Psychology Since Kohut (1998)

American Pragmatism and American Psychoanalysis (2002)

Pity the Poor Pluralist (2007)

Chapter 7      Rules, Boundaries, Correctness and Ownership

Introduction

Boundaries as Pre-Conditions (1999)

Postmodern Psychoanalysis (2001)

Who Owns the Countertransference? (2004)

A Risk of Confidentiality (2004)

Some Limits of the Boundary Concept (2008)

Chapter 8  Differentiation

Introduction

Me and Max: A Misalliance of Goals (2001)

Deutsch’s Discontent (2007)

Chapter 9      Sexualization

Introduction

Sexualization and De-sexualization (1993)

Depathologizing Homosexuality (2001)

Chapter 10  Mostly Clinical

Introduction

The Place of Apology in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (1987)

I Wish the Hour Were Over: Elements of a Moral Dilemma (2005)