The Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent

This book brings together an engaging study, using Emmanuel Ghent's collected papers, of theoretical and personal origins of the relational turn in psychoanalysis. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas have been hugely influential. However, he published sparingly and his papers are scattered across a range of sources. In this book, his key writings are reproduced, along with analyses and critiques by major contemporary psychoanalytic figures such as Adam Phillips, Jessica Benjamin, Seth Warren, Adrienne Harris and Barry Magrid.



This book provides a thorough examination of the key tenets of Ghent's thinking and illustrates the continued importance of his theoretical and clinical work for the next generation of psychoanalysts.

Introduction Victoria Demos and Adrienne Harris
Part One: Core Papers and Commentaries

1. Emmanuel Ghent and the Origins of Relational Psychoanalysis
Anthony Bass
Credo - The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies (1989)
EMMANUEL GHENT


2. Surrender and Self-Discovery: Ghent's Reflections on the "Force of Growth" and What Impedes It
JESSICA BENJAMIN
Masochism, Submission, Surrender-Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender (1990)
EMMANUEL GHENT


3. Medicine Man(nie): Commentary on Emmanuel Ghent's "Paradox and Process"
MURIEL DIMEN
Paradox and Process (1992)
EMMANUEL GHENT


4. Introduction to E. Ghent, "Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation"
C. SETH WARREN
Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1995)
EMMANUEL GHENT


5. The Butterfly in the Consulting Room
BARRY MAGID
Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory (2002)
EMMANUEL GHENT
Part Two: Early Writings


6. Psyche and Eye (1950)
EMMANUEL GHENT


7. Countertransference: Its Reflection in the Process of Peer-Group Supervision
CHAIM F. SHATAN, BENJAMIN BRODY, EMMANUEL GHENT
Part Three: In Ghent's Words


8. Relations: Introduction to the First IARPP Conference (2001)
EMMANUEL GHENT


9. On Relational Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Dr. Emmanuel Ghent/Interviewer: Lewis Aron (2000)
LEWIS ARON
EMMANUEL GHENT
Part Four: Reminiscences


10. A Fragment of an Analysis with Mannie Ghent
RON BALAMUTH


11. Reminiscences of Mannie as a Clinical Supervisor
LEWIS ARON


12. The Years with Ghent
VICTORIA DEMOS


13. Impressions of Mannie
JESSICA BENJAMIN


14. Heart Melts Forward: Emmanuel Ghent (1925-2003)

ADRIENNE HARRIS
Afterward On What We Need: A Celebration of the Work of Emmanuel Ghent
Adam Phillips