Stephen Seligman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3940929 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Seligman |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Seligman |
| FIRMA | SELIGMAN S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7036-3323 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Irreverence and Humor in Theory and Practice
Amidst stabs at humor, this paper highlights the costs of over-idealizations in psychoanalysis: stifling free discussion and complexity and reinforcing existing tendencies toward rigid hierarchies and insider/outsider dynamics. Instead, it calls for a dose of irreverence and skepticism. Various motivations for excessive reverence are explored, including feelings of belonging and inclusion, security through identification with idealized objects, a…
Clinical Extensions of the Transitional Object
The clinical implications of Winnicott’s transitional object theory are expanded to encompass all cases, rather than just cases in which patients suffer basic developmental deficits. This article explores the interplay of personal imagination with actual objects and people, in relation to clinical practice and problems in living. Good-enough integration in the transitional phase moves toward flexible and reciprocal relations between the inner and…
Expansion and Constraint in Freud's Contribution to Social Theory
This essay is an appreciation of the life and work of Nancy Chodorow, one of the most influential and insightful psychoanalytic sociologists of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Her critical feminist analysis-of mothering and gendering in general-integrated Ego Psychology, Object Relations Theory, developmental psychoanalysis, and structural-functional sociology, opening new visions, which she articulated throughout all of her work. That Chodorow was …
Tradition et changement dans la théorie psychanalytique
Becoming a Writing Psychoanalyst
Tradition and change in psychoanalytic theory
Theory plays a crucial role in clinical choices, group formation, and organizational culture and politics. Theoretical positions seem based on reason and observation, but other motivations are often involved-belonging, recognition, and even concrete rewards, such as referrals and organizational positions. Established ideas can constrain new perspectives and observations that can enhance analytic theory and practice. I query the theory of infantil…
Holding and Containing
Toward an Inclusive Spirit
Culture and “the Infantile
There are no outside funding sources or other conflicts of interest
Citizen/Psychoanalyst/OG
Walking down the street for my morning coffee on the Saturday after the election, regretting that I’d forgotten the notes to jump-start this piece about political dialogue with patients, I checked
Disturbing positions
This article considers the special challenges and opportunities of psychoanalytic work amidst sociopolitical crises. Therapists may find themselves sharing the specific concerns animating the patient, especially amidst political turmoil, as we have recently seen in the U.S. This dislocates several aspects of the conventional setting: Asymmetry, the therapist's expertise, and the usual focus on the individual-dyadic situation. Exploring these part…
Winnicott in Topeka
Reconstructing the Depressive Position
Philip Bromberg (1931– 2020)
It is with great sadness we mark the passing of one of our most profound and generous thinkers and clinicians. Philip Bromberg left us on May 18, 2020. He died of natural causes. In his passing, he
Anthony Bass Stepping Down as Editor in Chief
Anthony Bass has stepped down from his position of Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. This will be the first time in the Journal’s history that Tony will not be involved formally in
Moving Along
Analytic Life Amidst the Coronavirus II
Analytic Life Amidst the Coronavirus
This is our second set of short vignettes from analysts around the world as they are working and living through the COVID-19 crisis. These document the creative, novel, and unexpected ways that the
Creative Skepticism and Affectionate Curiosity
This paper appreciates and advocates for scholarship in psychoanalysis. This is not the same as “scientific” research—running experiments, sifting through data, having a lab or control group. What I have in mind is an inclusive attitude of synthesis, curiosity, and constructive skepticism—awareness of historical, political, cultural, and organizational contexts; identifying, questioning, and working one’s way through core assumptions; considering…
Illusion as a Basic Psychic Principle
Illusion can be viewed as a creative engagement with the world, and as a central psychic motivation and capacity, rather than as a form of self-deception. Winnicott and other Middle Group writers have understood integrative, imaginative illusion as an essential part of healthy living and psychosocial development. As such, it emerges and presents itself in a variety of ways, in transaction with the realities that support or degrade it. In its abse…
Attachment, Intersubjectivity, and Developmental Process
Commentary on Kernberg and Michels
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Infancy research, infant mental health, and adult psychotherapy
This article considers the influence of infant research on psychodynamic theory and practice. Infant research highlights the dramatic effects of the early caregiving relationship on development throughout the life span. It also provides important perspectives on psychotherapeutic processes. This article highlights such elements as empathy, mutual recognition and attachment, along with elaborating the intersubjective and transactional systems pers…
Illusion as a Basic Psychic Principle
Illusion can be viewed as a creative engagement with the world, and as a central psychic motivation and capacity, rather than as a form of self-deception. Winnicott and other Middle Group writers have understood integrative, imaginative illusion as an essential part of healthy living and psychosocial development. As such, it emerges and presents itself in a variety of ways, in transaction with the realities that support or degrade it. In its abse…
Clinical Implications of Current Attachment Theory
Reconstructing the Depressive Position
Infancy research, infant mental health, and adult psychotherapy
This article considers the influence of infant research on psychodynamic theory and practice. Infant research highlights the dramatic effects of the early caregiving relationship on development throughout the life span. It also provides important perspectives on psychotherapeutic processes. This article highlights such elements as empathy, mutual recognition and attachment, along with elaborating the intersubjective and transactional systems pers…
Tradition and change in psychoanalytic theory
Theory plays a crucial role in clinical choices, group formation, and organizational culture and politics. Theoretical positions seem based on reason and observation, but other motivations are often involved-belonging, recognition, and even concrete rewards, such as referrals and organizational positions. Established ideas can constrain new perspectives and observations that can enhance analytic theory and practice. I query the theory of infantil…
Dialogues on Sexuality In Development and Treatment
The evolution of a relational perspective has done much to change psychoanalytic thinking about the processes of mutual inf luence in human relating, including that between parent and child, patient and analyst. Beginning with excerpts from Oxenhandler’s recent book, The Eros of Parenthood, this panel explores the dynamics of sexual experiencing and sexual inf luence between parents and children and, in parallel fashion, between analysts and pati…
Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of Internal Representation
This commentary raises issues about the current state of research on internal representation, using the Special Issue of the Infant Mental Health Journal on “Internal Representation and Parent-Infant Relationships” as a point of departure. Current research is praised for its emphasis on subjectivity and intersubjectivity in relationships, for integrating viewpoints from a variety of disciplines, and for the development of innovative investigatory…
Infant Observation and Psychoanalytic Theory
Clinical Implications of Current Attachment Theory
Dialogues on Sexuality In Development and Treatment
The evolution of a relational perspective has done much to change psychoanalytic thinking about the processes of mutual inf luence in human relating, including that between parent and child, patient and analyst. Beginning with excerpts from Oxenhandler’s recent book, The Eros of Parenthood, this panel explores the dynamics of sexual experiencing and sexual inf luence between parents and children and, in parallel fashion, between analysts and pati…
Social psychoanalytic research and the twenty-first-century family
Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Infancy research, infant mental health, and adult psychotherapy
This article considers the influence of infant research on psychodynamic theory and practice. Infant research highlights the dramatic effects of the early caregiving relationship on development throughout the life span. It also provides important perspectives on psychotherapeutic processes. This article highlights such elements as empathy, mutual recognition and attachment, along with elaborating the intersubjective and transactional systems pers…
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Commentary on Kernberg and Michels
Attachment, Intersubjectivity, and Developmental Process
Illusion as a Basic Psychic Principle
Illusion can be viewed as a creative engagement with the world, and as a central psychic motivation and capacity, rather than as a form of self-deception. Winnicott and other Middle Group writers have understood integrative, imaginative illusion as an essential part of healthy living and psychosocial development. As such, it emerges and presents itself in a variety of ways, in transaction with the realities that support or degrade it. In its abse…
Philip Bromberg (1931– 2020)
It is with great sadness we mark the passing of one of our most profound and generous thinkers and clinicians. Philip Bromberg left us on May 18, 2020. He died of natural causes. In his passing, he
Anthony Bass Stepping Down as Editor in Chief
Anthony Bass has stepped down from his position of Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. This will be the first time in the Journal’s history that Tony will not be involved formally in
Moving Along
Analytic Life Amidst the Coronavirus II
Analytic Life Amidst the Coronavirus
This is our second set of short vignettes from analysts around the world as they are working and living through the COVID-19 crisis. These document the creative, novel, and unexpected ways that the
Creative Skepticism and Affectionate Curiosity
This paper appreciates and advocates for scholarship in psychoanalysis. This is not the same as “scientific” research—running experiments, sifting through data, having a lab or control group. What I have in mind is an inclusive attitude of synthesis, curiosity, and constructive skepticism—awareness of historical, political, cultural, and organizational contexts; identifying, questioning, and working one’s way through core assumptions; considering…
Citizen/Psychoanalyst/OG
Walking down the street for my morning coffee on the Saturday after the election, regretting that I’d forgotten the notes to jump-start this piece about political dialogue with patients, I checked
Disturbing positions
This article considers the special challenges and opportunities of psychoanalytic work amidst sociopolitical crises. Therapists may find themselves sharing the specific concerns animating the patient, especially amidst political turmoil, as we have recently seen in the U.S. This dislocates several aspects of the conventional setting: Asymmetry, the therapist's expertise, and the usual focus on the individual-dyadic situation. Exploring these part…
Winnicott in Topeka
Reconstructing the Depressive Position
Culture and “the Infantile
There are no outside funding sources or other conflicts of interest
Tradition et changement dans la théorie psychanalytique
Becoming a Writing Psychoanalyst
Psychology (24 obras) · Psychoanalysis (18 obras) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (16 obras) · Psychoanalytic theory (8 obras) · Psychotherapist (7 obras) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Child Therapy and Development (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras)