Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such a model of change allows for integration of behavioral, cognitive, visual, and other techniques into a psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapy.

This book will be of interest to mental health professionals, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychotherapists.

By R. Coleman Curtis

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1. Heteroclitics and Psychology
Chapter 3 2. Desire (and Its Discontents)
Chapter 4 3. The Charioteer and the Two Horses: The Self and Its Representations
Chapter 5 4. The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Unconscious Processes: The Mind in Psychoanalysis and Psychology
Chapter 6 5. Big Bad Blinks: What Happens to Threatening Information and What is Selected for Conscious Processing
Chapter 7 6. Abandonment of the Interpretation-Insight Model and the Tsunami of the New Experiences Model of Change
Chapter 8 7. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes: Focusing on the Experiencing Self
Chapter 9 8. Towards Psychointegration: Going to Africa
Chapter 10 9. The Affective Revolution and the Creative Unconscious: Two Areas of Convergence
Chapter 11 10. Summary: Toward a Psychoanalytically-Informed Psychological Science
Chapter 12 Epilogue