Making Sense Together

The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy

By (author) Peter Buirski, Pamela Haglund, Emily Markley

Publication date:

10 September 2020

Length of book:

250 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

233x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781538141915

The second edition of Making Sense Together provides a greater examination of the clinical practice of the intersubjective perspective. Listening and responding intersubjectively is concerned with attuning to affect, putting words to affective experience, and maintaining a caring relationship that offers the kind of needed self-objective experience missing in development. In addition, the intersubjective perspective co-constructs a developmental narrative that contextualizes the evolution of the person’s troubles. In this new and updated edition, authors Peter Buirski, Pamela Haglund, and Emily Markley draw on more than twenty years of combined experience teaching and supervising in the practice of the intersubjective perspective.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Overview

2 Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity

3 The Intersubjective Sensibility

4 Understanding the Patient’s State of Mind: Affect Attunement and the Empathic-Introspective Stance

5 The Centrality of Relationship

6 Practicing Intersubjectively

7 The Articulation of Subjective Experience

8 The Antidote Dimension of the Therapy Relationship

9 Listening and Responding Intersubjectively

10 Coconstructing a Developmental Narrative

11 Expanding the Field: Intersubjectivity Theory and Supervision

12 The Treatment of a Patient from the Intersubjective Perspective

written in collaboration with H. C. Brunette

References

About the Author

Excellent overview of an intersubjective perspective. The essence of their tone is an empathic and attuned responsiveness toward patients that I believe will resonate with most clinicians and assist them in their work with patients.