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The Language of Relational Psychoanalysis
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My name is Roger J. Segalla, Jr. Ph.D. I am a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Bethesda, MD and Director of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP&P) in Washington, DC. The initial motivation to create this wiki started while looking for term definitions I needed for a paper. I realized that it would be really helpful to have one place where you could go for definitive, and comprehensive, definitions of relational terms. Terms that couldn't be found in other dictionaries of psychoanalytic terms like Moore and Fine's "Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts" (1990) or LaPlanche and Pontalis's "The Language of Psychoanalysis" (1973). Although this project was initially conceived of as an edited book, I later realized that a wikipedia would allow for a resource which could evolve over time and not require new editions every 5 years in order to keep up with the rapidly developing field of relational psychoanalysis. Unlike dictionary, a wikipedia provides much more than a simple definition of words, terms or concepts. To learn more about what a wiki is go to WhatWikiIs.
The Language of Relational Psychoanalysis provides a forum in which a compliation terms, phrases and concepts can be collabortively defined (and edited). This compliation should ultimately represent a dynamic lexicon of contemporary relational psychoanalysis. In this context relational psychoanalysis can loosely be defined as those theories and concepts which generally place the relationship at the center of psychological development, motivation, pathology, and treatment. In this context "relational psychoanalysis" refers to what has been called little "r" relational psychoanalysis to differentiate it from (but include) the more recent group of theorists who identify themselves as Relational and are primarily associated with the late Stephen Mitchell. For a more detailed explanation of relational psychoanalysis go to A Brief History of Relational Psychoanalysis.
If you want to read about, write, or edit, a particular term or concept first go to the Alpha Word List and use the available word links to go the pages that have been created thus far.
If you are looking for a particular word, or author, you can also type that word into the search box in the right hand corner of every page (when not in edit mode).
To see an example of what a definition summary looks like click here Self, sense of self. Since we just launched this wiki there aren't many words defined yet but don't let that discourage you - psychoanalysis wasn't built in a day! Hopefully you will contribute to the expansion of this web site by selecting a term from the word list and creating a page for that word.
If you would like to start creating a definition for a word that doesn't yet have a designated word page you will need to get out of the edit mode (if you are in edit mode) and press the NEW PAGE button. You will then be asked to name the page - please use just the word or concept you would like to start defining. For example: "Analytic Third." After you create the page you will need to create a link to the page and use the link to replace the word on the Alpha Word List. Press create link (which you will see when in edit mode) on the above button panel it will look like this after it becomes a link: Analytic Third
For a more detailed instructions regarding creating a definition please go the Instructions Page.
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