Victoria Demos is Supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, New York.

Adrienne Harris is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology (Adjunct) and Clinical Consultant on the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU.

Introduction Victoria Demos and Adrienne Harris

Part One: Core Papers and Commentaries

1. Emmanuel Ghent and the Origins of Relational Psychoanalysis

Anthony Bass

Credo - The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies (1989)

EMMANUEL GHENT

2. Surrender and Self-Discovery: Ghent's Reflections on the "Force of Growth" and What Impedes It

JESSICA BENJAMIN

Masochism, Submission, Surrender-Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender (1990)

EMMANUEL GHENT

3. Medicine Man(nie): Commentary on Emmanuel Ghent's "Paradox and Process"

MURIEL DIMEN

Paradox and Process (1992)

EMMANUEL GHENT

4. Introduction to E. Ghent, "Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation"

C. SETH WARREN

Interaction in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1995)

EMMANUEL GHENT

5. The Butterfly in the Consulting Room

BARRY MAGID

Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory (2002)

EMMANUEL GHENT

Part Two: Early Writings

6. Psyche and Eye (1950)

EMMANUEL GHENT

7. Countertransference: Its Reflection in the Process of Peer-Group Supervision

CHAIM F. SHATAN, BENJAMIN BRODY, EMMANUEL GHENT

Part Three: In Ghent's Words

8. Relations: Introduction to the First IARPP Conference (2001)

EMMANUEL GHENT

9. On Relational Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Dr. Emmanuel Ghent/Interviewer: Lewis Aron (2000)

LEWIS ARON

EMMANUEL GHENT

Part Four: Reminiscences

10. A Fragment of an Analysis with Mannie Ghent

RON BALAMUTH

11. Reminiscences of Mannie as a Clinical Supervisor

LEWIS ARON

12. The Years with Ghent

VICTORIA DEMOS

13. Impressions of Mannie

JESSICA BENJAMIN

14. Heart Melts Forward: Emmanuel Ghent (1925-2003)

ADRIENNE HARRIS

Afterward On What We Need: A Celebration of the Work of Emmanuel Ghent

Adam Phillips