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Some Relational Resources:

I. History and Fundamental Concepts of Relational Psychodynamic Theory

•    Howard Bacal and Kenneth Newman. Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology
•    Pat DeYoung. Relational Psychotherapy, a primer
•    Michael Kahn. Between Client and Therapist: The New Relationship
•    Stephen Mitchell. Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
•    Stephen Mitchell and Lewis Aron, eds. Relational Psychoanalysis, the Emergence of a Tradition

II. Developmental Theory

•    John Bowlby. A Secure Base
•    Daniel Hughes. Attachment-Focused Family Therapy
•    Robert Karen. Becoming Attached
•    Daniel Stern. The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life and The Interpersonal World of the Infant
•    David Wallin. Attachment in Psychotherapy

III. Self Psychology Theory

•    Howard Bacal, ed. Optimal Responsiveness: How Therapists Heal Their Patients
•    Doris Brothers. Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centred Psychoanalysis
•    Helene Jackson, ed. Using Self-Psychology in Psychotherapy
•    Heinz Kohut. How Does Analysis Cure?
•    Ernest Wolf. Treating the Self

IV. Intersubjectivity Theory

•    George Atwood and Robert Stolorow. Structures of Subjectivity and Contexts of Being
•    Peter Buirski and Pamela Haglund. Making Sense Together: The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy
•    Donna Orange. Emotional Understanding
•    David Shaddock. Contexts and Connections: An Intersubjective Systems Approach to Couples Therapy
•    Morton Shane, Estelle Shane, and Mary Gales. Intimate Attachments: Toward a New Self Psychology
•    Robert Stolorow, Bernard Brandshaft and George Atwood.Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach and The Intersubjective Perspective

V. Theory about Process in Relational Therapy

•    Lewis Aron. A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
•    Patrick Casement. Learning from the Patient
•    Pat DeYoung. Relational Psychotherapy: a Primer
•    Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg. The Intimate Edge
•    Steven Ellman and Michael Moskowitz, eds.Enactment: Toward a New Approach to the Therapeutic Relationship
•    Karen Maroda. Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation.
•    Stephen Mitchell. Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis, Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis, and Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
•    Stuart Pizer. Building Bridges
•    Irvin Yalom. The Gift of Therapy and Staring at the Sun

VI. Feminism and Relational Psychodynamic Theory

•    Laura Brown. Subversive Dialogues: Theory in Feminist Therapy
•    Laura Brown and Maria Root, eds. Diversity and Complexity in Feminist Therapy
•    Jody Messler Davies and Mary Gail Frawley.Treating the Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
•    Judith Herman. Trauma and Recovery
•    Judith Jordan et al. Women’s Growth in Connection
•    Judith Jordan, ed. Woman’s Growth in Diversity: More Writings from the Stone Center
•    Jean Baker Miller and Irene Stiver. The Healing Connection

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