 | Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts Developing psychoanalytic credos, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing upon Mannie Ghent's original Credo essay, 27 psychoanalysts were asked to write their credos and/or their psychoanalytic journey. This book represents a multi-theoretical and multi-generational grouping, trained at different institutes, during different eras (grouped by decades 1960-2000) and across cultures. They are drawn from analysts identified with Relational, Object Relations, Contemporary Freudians and Kleinian/Bionian perspectives as well as those who don't easily fit categorization. This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey. Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is Faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She edited Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives, and co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, both of which received the Gradiva Award for best edited books (2018). She is in private practice in Manhattan. |
