The term "intersubjectivity

Intersubjectivity

Intersubjectivity is a term used in philosophy, psychology, sociology and anthropology to describe a condition somewhere between subjectivity and objectivity, one in which a phenomenon is personally experienced but by more than one subject....

" introduced in psychoanalysis by George E. Atwood and Robert Stolorow

Robert Stolorow

Robert D. Stolorow is a psychoanalyst, well known for his works on intersubjectivity theory. Important books include: Faces in a Cloud , Structures of Subjectivity , Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach , Contexts of Being , Working Intersubjectively , Worlds of Experience , and...

 (1984).

The myth of isolated mind

The intersubjective psychoanalysis accused the traditional psychoanalysis of having described the psychic phenomena as "the myth of isolated mind

Mind

The concept of mind is understood in many different ways by many different traditions, ranging from panpsychism and animism to traditional and organized religious views, as well as secular and materialist philosophies. Most agree that minds are constituted by conscious experience and intelligent...

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Key figures

Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of Self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches.-Early life:Kohut was born...

 is commonly considered the pioneer of the relational and intersubjective approaches. Following him, significant contributors include Stephen A. Mitchell, Jessica Benjamin

Jessica Benjamin

Jessica Benjamin is an American psychoanalyst and feminist.She is currently on the faculty of New York University's Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy...

, Bernard Brandchaft, James Fosshage, Donna M.Orange, Arnold Modell, Thomas Ogden, Owen Renik, Harold Searles

Harold Searles

Harold F. Searles, M.D. is one of the pioneers of psychiatric medicine specialising in psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenia. Harold Searles has the reputation of being a therapeutic virtuoso with difficult and borderline patients; and of being 'not only a great analyst but also a sagacious...

, Colwyn Trewarthen, Edgar A. Levenson, J. R. Greenberg, Edward R. Ritvo, Beatrice Beebe, Frank M. Lachmann, Herbert Rosenfeld

Herbert Rosenfeld

Herbert Alexander Rosenfeld was a British psychoanalyst, who was born in Germany in 1910 and died in London in 1986.'British analysts have been deeply influenced by the work and teachings of Rosenfeld who increasingly focused upon the analyst's contribution to what was happening in the analysis -...

 and Daniel Stern

Daniel Stern (psychologist)

Daniel N. Stern is a prominent psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist, specializing in infant development, on which he has written a number of books - most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant ....

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External links

Online papers about intersubjectivity theory in psychoanalysis:

• Stolorow R.
  Robert Stolorow
  Robert D. Stolorow is a psychoanalyst, well known for his works on intersubjectivity theory. Important books include: Faces in a Cloud , Structures of Subjectivity , Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach , Contexts of Being , Working Intersubjectively , Worlds of Experience , and...
  
   and Atwood G. (1992) "The myth of isolate mind” in "Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life"
• Silvia Montefoschi (2004) "Il senso della psicoanalisi. Da Freud a Jung e oltre"