Book description
'This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers,
positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy,
captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured traditions
back into dialogue, on new terms. The editors do partisans of both
fields a great service in this effort, since their long-standing mutual
isolation has kept each dismissive of the other, and ignorant of
developments in the other's field - to their mutual detriment. The book
tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are
creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of
psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. While the strategies
are many and varied, the collection as a whole reflects some of the
deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best: holding
complexity, tolerating contradiction, seeking common ground, seeing past
limiting and ideologically driven binaries, thinking and working outside
the box, and honouring history and tradition, even while digging it up.'
- Virginia Goldner, Ph. D. Faculty Emeritus, Ackerman Institute for the
Family; Faculty, New York University Post-doctoral Program in
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
