This book aims to give psychoanalysts a clear and comprehensive guide to the theory and clinical applications of Field Theory. Assuming basic psychoanalytic knowledge but no knowledge of Field Theory, it will set out how Field Theory has been developed, the main tenets of Field Theory, how it differs from other schools of psychoanalytic thought and how it can be applied in clinical practice.

S. Montana Katz is a founding co-Director of the International Field Theory Association. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Senior Faculty Member at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.

Foreword by Joseph Lichtenberg

Part I The First Wave of Psychoanalytic Field Theory

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Overview of Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Past, present, and future

Chapter 3 The First Model of Psychoanalytic Field Theory: The mythopoeic model

Chapter 4 The Second Model of Psychoanalytic Field Theory: The plasmic model

Part II The Second Wave of Psychoanalytic Field Theory

Chapter 5 The Third Model of Psychoanalytic Field Theory: The oneiric model.

Chapter 6 Clinical Case: Zoe

Chapter 7 Analytic Listening in the Three Models

Chapter 8 The Initial Phase of Zoe's Analysis

Chapter 9 Some Theoretical Considerations Regarding Clinical Process

Chapter 10 Tools and Techniques of Psychoanalytic Process in the Three Field Theory Models

Part III The Third Wave of Psychoanalytic Field Theory

Chapter 11 A Discussion of the Three Models of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory

Chapter 12 General Psychoanalytic Fields and Their Uses

Chapter 13 Concluding Remarks on Psychoanalysis as a Holistic Endeavor