"Contexts of Being" is the conceptual culmination of Stolorow and Atwood's earlier studies, giving them a forum to explain why the perspective of intersubjectivity cannot be reduced to a clinical sensibility that can be grafted onto existing psychoa

Robert D. Stolorow, George E. Atwood

Part I: Theoretical Foundations. The Myth of the Isolated Mind. Three Realms of the Unconscious. The Mind and the Body. Trauma and Pathogenesis. Fantasy Formation. Part II: Clinical Applications. Varieties of Therapeutic Alliance. Varieties of Therapeutic Impasse.