Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration ─ An Evolving Synergy

Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration traces the history of efforts to integrate psychoanalysis with other psychotherapeutic modalities, beginning with the early analysts, including Ferenczi and Rank, and continuing on to the present day. It explores the potential for integration made possible by contemporary developments in theory and technique that are fundamental to a relational psychoanalytic approach.

The editors Jill Bresler and Karen Starr bring together an array of valuable theoretical and clinical contributions by relationally oriented psychoanalysts who identify their work as integrative. The book is divided into four parts, including: a discussion of theoretical frameworks of psychotherapy integration; integrating multiple models of psychotherapy into a psychoanalytically informed treatment; working with specific populations including substance abusers and couples; finally, the authors look to the future of integration, exploring the issues involved in educating clinicians in integrative practice.

Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration is unique in its focus on the integration of relational psychoanalysis with other therapeutic modalities traditionally considered "non-analytic." The contributions in this volume show how integrating techniques from a variety of psychotherapies outside of psychoanalysis can enrich and enhance psychoanalytic practice, particularly when working with specific populations. It will be an invaluable resource for all practicing psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in training, particularly those with an interest in relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy integration.

Jill Bresler is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is faculty and advisory board member of the Psychotherapy Integration Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. She has been practicing, teaching, and speaking to professional audiences about psychotherapy for three decades. Dr. Bresler is a clinical psychologist who maintains a private practice in New York City.

Karen Starr is Clinical Supervisor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Adjunct Faculty at Long Island University at C.W. Post. She is the author, with Lewis Aron, of A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2013) with Lewis Aron, author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2008). She is Clinical Supervisor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and Long Island University/C.W. Post. Dr. Starr is a clinical psychologist who is a clinical psychologist inmaintains a private practice in New York City and Great Neck, Long Island.