Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent

Victoria Demos is Supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, New York.Adrienne Harris is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology (Adjunct) and Clinical Consultant on the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU.

• Introduction Victoria Demos and Adrienne HarrisPart One: Core Papers and Commentaries Emmanuel Ghent and the Origins of Relational PsychoanalysisAnthony Bass Credo — The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies (1989)EMMANUEL GHENT Surrender and Self-Discovery: Ghent’s Reflections on the "Force of Growth" and What Impedes ItJESSICA BENJAMIN Masochism, Submission, Surrender—Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender (1990)EMMANUEL GHENT Medicine Man(nie): Commentary on Emmanuel Ghent's "Paradox and Process"MURIEL DIMEN Paradox and Process (1992)EMMANUEL GHENT Introduction to E. Ghent, "Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation"C. SETH WARRENInteraction in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1995)EMMANUEL GHENT The Butterfly in the Consulting RoomBARRY MAGID Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory (2002)EMMANUEL GHENT Part Two: Early Writings Psyche and Eye (1950)EMMANUEL GHENT Countertransference: Its Reflection in the Process of Peer-Group Supervision CHAIM F. SHATAN, BENJAMIN BRODY, EMMANUEL GHENTPart Three: In Ghent’s Words Relations: Introduction to the First IARPP Conference (2001)EMMANUEL GHENT On Relational Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Dr. Emmanuel Ghent/Interviewer: Lewis Aron (2000)LEWIS ARONEMMANUEL GHENT Part Four: Reminiscences A Fragment of an Analysis with Mannie GhentRON BALAMUTH Reminiscences of Mannie as a Clinical SupervisorLEWIS ARON The Years with GhentVICTORIA DEMOS Impressions of Mannie JESSICA BENJAMIN Heart Melts Forward: Emmanuel Ghent (1925-2003)ADRIENNE HARRISAfterward On What We Need: A Celebration of the Work of Emmanuel Ghent Adam Phillips

"Heart Melts Forward is a book, of course--and so when we consider it, we think first of Manny’s writing, which was prescient and brilliant, and which continues to serve as one of the primary inspirations of the entire relational literature. But it was because Manny was the person he was, the whole person he was, that he became as beloved and influential as he was. Luckily for us, his personhood suffuses every one of the gripping and profound articles collected here. In reading this book you will be standing on the foundation of relational psychoanalysis. But there will be more: if you didn’t know Manny, you will wish you had."-Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D., William Alanson White Institute and NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.