Relational Psychoanalysis Out of Context: Response to Jon Mills

Steven Kuchuck, LCSW is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives: An International Journal of Integration and Innovation and Associate Editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series from Routledge. He is a contributor to and editor of the book Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional (Routledge, 2014) and contributor to and co-editor (with Adrienne Harris) of The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (Routledge, 2015) and serves on the Board of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). He is on the faculty of NIP, NIP National Training Program, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and other institutes, and is currently the President-elect of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). www.stevenkuchuck.com
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Rachel Sopher, LCSW, is board director, supervisor, and faculty of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute, and faculty member of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is senior editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives: A Journal of Integration and Innovation and is in private practice in New York City.