Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Credo: The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies (1989) -- Masochism, Submission, Surrender: Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender (1990) -- Paradox and Process (1992) -- Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1995) -- Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory (2002) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Core papers and commentaries -- Chapter 1 Emmanuel Ghent and the origins of relational psychoanalysis -- One- and Two-Person Psychologies in Relational Psychoanalysis -- The Internal World and the Interpersonal World: Expanding Possibilities and Looking Toward the Future -- Notes -- Credo: The dialectics of one-person and two-person psychologies -- One-Person versus Two-Person Psychology -- Relational Theories -- The Self in Relation to a One-person and Two-Person Psychology -- The Philosophy of Cure: Empathy, Truth Ethic, Developmental Deficit -- Stern's Contribution -- Another Kind of One-Person Self? -- Drives and Motives -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Surrender and self-discovery: Ghent's reflections on the "force for growth"and what impedes it -- References -- Masochism, submission, surrender: Masochism as a perversion of surrender -- Sadism as a Perversion of Object Usage -- The Apperception of Disorganizing Meaning -- Surrender, Masochism and the Creative Process -- Growth and Healing -- Overview -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Medicine Man(nie): Commentary on Emmanuel Ghent's "Paradox and Process"--Note -- References -- Paradox and process -- Benign and Malignant Regression -- Illusion -- Object Use -- Other Polarities -- Conclusion -- Notes