Irwin Hirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irwin Hirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirsch |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adelphi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mutative Action
The relative value of insight as a mutative factor in psychoanalysis has long been a central question in the literature. Most analysts of this generation believe that although insight has clear value, it isn’t normally sufficient to produce structural change in most patients. Alternatively, the tide has shifted strongly to the view that the analytic relationship per se, has more explanatory power in understanding why patients change. This essay a…
With an Emphasis on Analysts’ Consciousness
I briefly attempt to clarify some points of disagreement in two excellent discussions that are largely in accord with my point of view of mutative action and impediments to mutative action. It feels very good to have two such prominent and well-respected analysts largely sympathetic – even admiring of something that I write. I thank them for their generosity and their erudition, the latter, in part, serving to slightly elaborate my basic thesis
Forgiveness – It Depends
Diane Barclay’s article (this issue) is a clear example of rich and productive clinical work and how in some contexts, both patient and analyst can benefit personally from the inherently intersubjective nature of psychoanalytic practice. Both analyst and patient spent years struggling to forgive mothers who were very deficient and who bore considerable resemblance to one another. Ultimately forgiving their respective mothers proved very helpful t…
A Dyadic Systems View of Communication
Narcissism, Mania and Analysts' Envy
Coasting in the Countertransference
Imperfect Love, Imperfect Lives
Psychoanalysis' judgments about patients' decentered sexual lives are often influenced by analytic ideals that are based on long-cherished cultural values and/or theoretical constructs. These analytic value judgments sometimes assume that all or most individuals are optimally fulfilled in the context of deeply intimate and sexually monogamous long-term relationships, where attachment love and sexual passion coexist in equal intensity. Such analyt…
Some Controversies Regarding the Teaching of Psychoanalysis
Analysts’ Observing-Participation with Theory
The author summarizes some of the literature's critiques of psychoanalytic theory, which have noted its constrictive quality and failure to take into account the vicissitudes of treatment within each analytic dyad. Such postmodern reactions have given rise to a countertheoretical trend toward psychoanalytic pluralism, leading the author to suggest that a single, standard psychoanalytic technique no longer exists. The interpersonal tradition, whic…
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis' Radical Façade
The participant-observation model initiated the relational turn, as well as the shift from modernism to postmodernism in psychoanalysis. This two-person, coparticipant conceptualization of the psychoanalytic situation moved psychoanalysis from the realm of alleged objective science toward intersubjectivity and hermeneutics. From this perspective, the analyst as subjective other is constantly engaged affectively with the patient in ways that are v…
An Illustration of the Irreducible Subjectivity in Interpreting Data—Clinical or Written
Seinfeld's Humor Noir
Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly calls Seinfeld the most unabashedly Jewish show ever to reach a wide television audience. Greenberg, too, has referred to this sitcom as overwhelmingly Jewish in its ethos and compares it in this regard with the films of director Woody Allen. Allen's movies, however, for the most part do not appeal to a wide American audience and often fail economically despite acclaim from critics. Jerry Seinfeld et al. are co…
Interview with Benjamin Wolstein
Men's Love for Men
Commentaries
Discussion of Frawley-O'Dea and Sarnat
The Concept of Enactment and Theoretical Convergence
Classical analysts have recently become interested in the constructive use of countertransference. Some have extended the traditional conception of transference enactment to include the analyst's countertransference enactments. That is, the analyst may unwittingly actualize the patient's transference and, together with the patient, live out intrapsychic configurations. Awareness and interpretation are likely to occur only after there has been a t…
The Widening of the Concept of Dissociation
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology
An interpersonal perspective
An interpersonal perspective
An interpersonal perspective
Countertransference and participant observation
Varying Modes of Analytic Participation
Sexual disorders
The Concept of Enactment and Theoretical Convergence
Classical analysts have recently become interested in the constructive use of countertransference. Some have extended the traditional conception of transference enactment to include the analyst's countertransference enactments. That is, the analyst may unwittingly actualize the patient's transference and, together with the patient, live out intrapsychic configurations. Awareness and interpretation are likely to occur only after there has been a t…
Analysts’ Observing-Participation with Theory
The author summarizes some of the literature's critiques of psychoanalytic theory, which have noted its constrictive quality and failure to take into account the vicissitudes of treatment within each analytic dyad. Such postmodern reactions have given rise to a countertheoretical trend toward psychoanalytic pluralism, leading the author to suggest that a single, standard psychoanalytic technique no longer exists. The interpersonal tradition, whic…
Interview with Benjamin Wolstein
Analytic intimacy and the restoration of nurturance
Toward a more subjective view of analyzability
Sexual disorders
Varying Modes of Analytic Participation
Countertransference and participant observation
An interpersonal perspective
An interpersonal perspective
An interpersonal perspective
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology
The Widening of the Concept of Dissociation
Discussion of Frawley-O'Dea and Sarnat
The Concept of Enactment and Theoretical Convergence
Classical analysts have recently become interested in the constructive use of countertransference. Some have extended the traditional conception of transference enactment to include the analyst's countertransference enactments. That is, the analyst may unwittingly actualize the patient's transference and, together with the patient, live out intrapsychic configurations. Awareness and interpretation are likely to occur only after there has been a t…
Men's Love for Men
Commentaries
Seinfeld's Humor Noir
Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly calls Seinfeld the most unabashedly Jewish show ever to reach a wide television audience. Greenberg, too, has referred to this sitcom as overwhelmingly Jewish in its ethos and compares it in this regard with the films of director Woody Allen. Allen's movies, however, for the most part do not appeal to a wide American audience and often fail economically despite acclaim from critics. Jerry Seinfeld et al. are co…
Interview with Benjamin Wolstein
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis' Radical Façade
The participant-observation model initiated the relational turn, as well as the shift from modernism to postmodernism in psychoanalysis. This two-person, coparticipant conceptualization of the psychoanalytic situation moved psychoanalysis from the realm of alleged objective science toward intersubjectivity and hermeneutics. From this perspective, the analyst as subjective other is constantly engaged affectively with the patient in ways that are v…
An Illustration of the Irreducible Subjectivity in Interpreting Data—Clinical or Written
Analysts’ Observing-Participation with Theory
The author summarizes some of the literature's critiques of psychoanalytic theory, which have noted its constrictive quality and failure to take into account the vicissitudes of treatment within each analytic dyad. Such postmodern reactions have given rise to a countertheoretical trend toward psychoanalytic pluralism, leading the author to suggest that a single, standard psychoanalytic technique no longer exists. The interpersonal tradition, whic…
Some Controversies Regarding the Teaching of Psychoanalysis
Imperfect Love, Imperfect Lives
Psychoanalysis' judgments about patients' decentered sexual lives are often influenced by analytic ideals that are based on long-cherished cultural values and/or theoretical constructs. These analytic value judgments sometimes assume that all or most individuals are optimally fulfilled in the context of deeply intimate and sexually monogamous long-term relationships, where attachment love and sexual passion coexist in equal intensity. Such analyt…
Coasting in the Countertransference
Narcissism, Mania and Analysts' Envy
A Dyadic Systems View of Communication
Forgiveness – It Depends
Diane Barclay’s article (this issue) is a clear example of rich and productive clinical work and how in some contexts, both patient and analyst can benefit personally from the inherently intersubjective nature of psychoanalytic practice. Both analyst and patient spent years struggling to forgive mothers who were very deficient and who bore considerable resemblance to one another. Ultimately forgiving their respective mothers proved very helpful t…
Psychology (25 works) · Psychoanalysis (22 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (17 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychotherapist (10 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)