Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and member of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and Sensuality and Sexuality across the Divide of Shame (Analytic Press, 2007).
Narrative and Meaning: The Foundation of Mind, Creativity, and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
Narrative and Meaning examines the role of both in contemporary psychoanalytic practice, bringing together a distinguished group of contributors from across the intersubjective, relational, and... (more)
A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis
Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Infant Research
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems
This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Motivation
Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that... (more)
Self and Motivational Systems: Toward a Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique
This sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation describes an approach to psychoanalytic technique which emphasizes a sensitivity to moment-to-moment analytic exchanges and an appreciation... (more)
Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies
In this wonderfully illuminating sequel to A Spirit of Inquiry (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 2002), Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the... (more)
Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame
Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems... (more)
A Developmentalist's Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy: Selected Works of Joseph Lichtenberg
The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of... (more)
Enlivening the Self: The First Year, Clinical Enrichment, and the Wandering Mind
In psychoanalysis, enlivenment is seen as residing in a sense of self, and this sense of self is drawn from and shaped by lived experience. Enlivening the Self: The First Year, Clinical Enrichment,... (more)
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and... (more)