Roy E. Barsness is a Professor at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, the Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis and Christian Theology, and the Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Group, Seattle. He was formally the Clinical Director at Seattle Pacific University and a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He has been in independent practice for over 25 years.

PART I: CURRENT RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS

Chapter 1: CORE COMPETENCIES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Roy Barsness

Chapter 2: THE CASE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: EXPLORING THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE John Thor Cornelius

Chapter 3: THE RELATIONAL TRADITION: LANDSCAPE AND CANON Adrienne Harris

PART II: CORE COMPETENCIES

Chapter 4: COMPETENCY ONE: THERAPEUTIC INTENT Steven Tublin

Chapter 5: COMPETENCY TWO: THERAPEUTIC STANCE/ATTITUDE Nancy McWilliams

Chapter 6: COMPETENCY THREE: DEEP LISTENING/AFFECTIVE ATTUNEMENT Stuart Pizer

Chapter 7: COMPETENCY FOUR: RELATIONAL DYNAMIC: THE THERE AND THEN AND THE HERE AND NOW Lewis Aron

Chapter 8: COMPETENCY FIVE: PATTERNING AND LINKING Steven Knoblauch

Chapter 9: COMPETENCY SIX: REPETITION AND WORKING THROUGH Karen Maroda

Chapter 10: COMPETENCY SEVEN: COURAGEOUS SPEECH/DISPLINED SPONTANEITY Roy Barsness & Brad Strawn

Chapter 11: CORE COMPETENCY: LOVE Daniel Shaw

PART III: NEW FRONTIERS

Chapter 12: RELATIONAL ETHICS Roy Barsness & Brad Strawn

Chapter 13: THE BRAIN AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Allan Schore

Chapter 14: SEXUALITY AND GENDER Karol Marshall & Roy Barsness

Chapter 15: CULTURE CONSIDERATIONS Pratyusha Tummala-Narra

Chapter 16: SELF CARE Roy Barsness & Anita Sorenson

PART IV: A CRITIQUE

Chapter 17: CRITIQUE OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS Jon Mills with a postscript by Steven Kuchuck