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Blum, J., Fosshage, J., and Jarvik, L. (1972)
Intellectual changes and sex differences in Octogenarians:
A twenty-year longitudinal study of aging.
Developmental Psychology, 7, 2: 178-187

Fosshage, J. (1983)
The psychological function of dreams: a revised psychoanalytic perspective.
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 6, 4:641-669.
Also published in Essential Papers on Dreams (1992), ed. M. Lansky.
New York, NY: New York University Press.
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Fosshage, J. (1987)
New vistas on dream interpretation.
In Dreams In New Perspective: The Royal Road Revisited,
ed. M. Glucksman, New York: Human Sciences Press.

Fosshage, J. (1987)
A Revised Psychoanalytic Approach.
In Dream Interpretation: A Comparative Study,
eds. James L. Fosshage & Clemens A. Loew,
New York: PMA Publishing.

Fosshage, J. (1988)
Dream interpretation revisited.
In Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 3,
ed. A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.
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(Translated into Japanese.)

Fosshage, J. (1988)
Introduction.
In Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 3,
ed. A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.

Fosshage, J. (1989)
The developmental function of dreaming mentation: clinical implications.
In Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 5,
ed. A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.
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Fosshage, J. (1989)
Reply.
In Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 5
ed. A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.
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Hollander-Goldfein, B., Fosshage, J., and Bahr, J.M. (1989)
Determinants of patient's choice of therapist.
Psychotherapy, 26, 4:448-461.

Fosshage, J. (1990)
Clinical protocol.
In How Theory Shapes Technique: Perspectives on a Self-psychological Clinical Presentation.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 4:461-477.

Fosshage, J. (1990)
The analyst's response.
In:How Theory Shapes Technique: Perspectives on a Self-psychological Clinical Presentation.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 4:601-622.

Fosshage, J. (1991)
Beyond the basic rule.
In The Evolution of Self Psychology, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 7,
ed. A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press, 64-71.

Fosshage, J. (1992)
The selfobject concept: a further discussion of three authors.
In New Therapeutic Visions, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 8,
ed, A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 229-240.

Fosshage, J. (1992)
Self psychology: the self and its vicissitudes within a relational matrix.
In Relational Perspectives
ed. N.Skolnick and S. Warshaw, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press, 21-42.
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Fosshage, J. (1992)
Psychoanalysis: versions of blinis with sour cream.
Contemporary Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 7, 119-128.

Kiersky, S. & Fosshage, J. (1993)
The two analyses of Dr. L.: A self-psychological perspective on Freud's treatment of the rat man.
In Freud's Cases: A Self Psychological View,
ed. B. Magid. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press, 107-133.

Fosshage, J. (1994)
Discussion on Morrison's Paper 'On Shame'.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Vol. 4, l: 37-44.

Fosshage, J. (1994)
Toward reconceptualizing transference: theoretical and clinical considerations.
International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 75, 2: 265-280.
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Fosshage, J. (1995)
Interaction in Psychoanalysis: A Broadening Horizon.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 5(3):459-478.
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Fosshage, J. (1995)
Countertransference as the analyst's experience of the analysand:
Influence of listening perspectives.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 12(3), 375-391.
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Fosshage, J. (1995)
An expansion of motivational theory: Lichtenberg's motivational systems model,
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 15: 4, 421-436.

Fosshage, J. (1995)
Self psychology and its contributions to psychoanalysis.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 2: 9-12.
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Fosshage, J. (1995)
How theory affects technique.
Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 4: 4, 483-490.

Fosshage, J. (1996)
Listening Perspectives.
The Round Robin, Vol. XI, 3:23-24.

Fosshage, J. (1996)
Toward a model of supervision from a self psychological/intersubjective perspective.
In Psychoanalytic Supervision
ed. M. Rock, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc. pp. 189-210.

Lichtenberg, J., Lachmann, F. & Fosshage, J. (1996)
Werte und moralische haltungen.
Psyche, 50: 407-403.

Fosshage, J., (1997)
The organizing functions of dream mentation.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33, No. 3, 429-458.
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Fosshage, J. (1997)
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy: Is there a distinction in the process?
Psychoanalytic Psychology. 14 (3), 409-425.
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Fosshage, J. (1997)
Listening/Experiencing perspectives and the quest for a facilitative responsiveness.
In Conversations in Self Psycholgy, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 13,
ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. pp. 33-55.
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Fosshage, J. (1997)
'Compensatory' or 'primary': An alternative view--Discussion of Marian Tolpin's Compensatory structures--Paths to the restoration of the self."
In Conversations in Self Psychology, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 13,
ed. A. Goldberg, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. pp. 21-27.

Fosshage, J. and Lichtenberg, J. (1997)
Transference: a self and motivational systems perspectives.
In The Neurobiological.and Developmental Basis for Psychotherapeutic Intervention,
ed.s M. Moskowitz, C. Monk, C. Kaye, and S. Ellman, Livingston, NJ; Jason Aronson Inc.

Fosshage, J. (1998)
On aggression: Its forms and functions.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Vol. 18, 1: 45-54.

Fosshage, J. (1998)
Discussion of Anna Ornstein's "The Fate of Narcissistic Rage in Psychotherapy."
Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Vol. 18, 1: 71-81.

Fosshage, J. (1998)
The role of listening/experiencing perspectives in the quest for optimal responsiveness.
In Optimal Responsiveness
ed. H. Bacal. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc.

Fosshage, J. (1998)
Self psychology and its contributions to psychoanalysis: an overview.
Journal of Analytic Social Work, Vol. 5 (2), 1-17.

Fosshage, J. (1999)
A reply to Golland's "Politics of Leveling."
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 10, 1:110-114.

Fosshage, J. (1999)
Zuhor- und erlebensperspektiven im hinblick auf die fordernade responsivitat, Psychoanalyse Wien.
In Aspekte einer neuen Psychoanalyse: Ein selfstpsychologisher Autausch:
New York--Wien. Ed. E. Bartosch. Wien: Verlag Neue, pp. 53-68.

Fosshage, J. (1999)
Tracking Alan Kindler's Case Report: A Self and Motivational Systems Perspective.
In Pluralism in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 15,
ed. A. Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 207-213.

Fosshage, J. (1999)
Il controtransfert come esperienza che l;analista ha del presente.
Ricerca Psicoanalitica, Anno X, no.2, 133-153.

Aron, L. and Fosshage, J. (1999)
The Interpretation of dreams: A centennial celebration.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 9, 6: 721-724.

Fosshage, J. (2000)
The meanings of touch in psychoanalysis: A time for reassessment.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Vol. 20, 1: 21-43.
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Fosshage, J. (2000)
The organizing functions of dreaming: A contemporary psychoanalytic model:
Commentary on Paper by Hazel Ipp.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 1: 103-117.

Fosshage, J.& Davies, J. (2000)
Analytic psychology after Jung with Clinical Case Material from Stephen Mitchell's Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 3: 377-388.

Fosshage, J. (2000)
Afterword: A view from the outside.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 3: 509-512.

Fosshage, J. (2000)
Lichtenberg's Self and Motivational Systems Model: Celebration in Honor of Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D.
(Unpublished manuscript - Presented Oct. 21, 2000, ICP&P, Washington D.C.).

Fosshage, J. (2001)
Issue Editor: Prologue. Perspectives on an object relations clinical presentation: the process of change.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 21, 4: 467-468

Fosshage, J. (2001)
Epilogue. Perspectives on an object relations clinical presentation: the process of change.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 21, 4: 546-552.

Fosshage, J. (2002)
A relational self psychological perspective.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 47, 67-82.

Fosshage, J. (2002)
Beruhrung in der pshychoanalyse-Zeit fur eine Neueinschatzung.
In Verspieltheit als Entwichklungschance<br> ed.s, Sabine Trautmann-Voigt und Bernd Voigt. Edition Psychosozial-Verlag.

Fosshage, J. (2003)
Contextualizing self psychology and relational psychoanalysis: Bi-directional influence and proposed syntheses.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 39, No. 3, 411-448.
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Fosshage, J. (2003)
Some reflections on "What is a psychoanalytic relationship?" and "How does it effectuate change?"
Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 1(1), 45-53.

Fosshage, J. (2003)
How Does Change Occur Within the Psychoanalytic Encounter?
Journal of Religion and Health: Psychology, Spirituality, & Medicine, Vol. 42, No. 4, 281-299.

Fosshage, J. (2003)
Fundamental pathways to change: Illuminating old and creating new relational experience.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 12: 244-251.
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Fosshage, J. (2004)
The explicit and implicit dance in psychoanalytic change.
The Journal of Analytical Psychology, 49, 49-65.

Fosshage, J. (2004)
I rapporti tra la psicologia del se e la psicoanalisi relazionale.
Ricerca Psycoanalitica, Anno XV, 2: 135-176.

Fosshage, J. and Munschauer, C. (2004)
Facilitative analytic interaction in a case of extreme nihilism and aversiveness.
Transformations in Self Psychology, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 20,
ed. W. Coburn. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. pp. 21-49.

Fosshage, J. and Munschauer, C. (2004)
Facilitative interaction, rules, enactments and "A Spirit of Inquiry."
Transformations in Self Psychology, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 20,
ed. W.Coburn. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. pp. 79-92.

Fosshage, J. (2004)
The role of empathy and interpretation in the therapeutic process:
Commentary on discussions of Salee Jenkins's Clinical Case (Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 18).
In Transformations in Self Psychology, Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 20,
ed. W. Coburn. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. pp. 325-334.

Fosshage, J. (2004)
La dimensione esplicita and quella implicita nel camblamento in psicoanalisi.
Quaderni de Gli Argonauti, No. 8, 53-76.
(The explicit and implicit domains in psychoanalytic change. Journal issue titled, "Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Post-modernity.")

Fosshage, J. (2005)
Il paesaggio di me stessa. Le funzioni organizzative dell'attivita mentale del sogno.
Interseszioni: modi di pensare la psyche. Rivista di Psicologia Analitica, nuova serie n. 6., 58/98, 47-75.

Fosshage, J. (2005)
A Self-psychological/relational view of Robert Grosmark's "The case of Peter."
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41: 1, 105-116.

Cresci, M. and Fosshage, J. (2005)
Issue Co-editors and Prologue. Perspectives on a Case Study of Power and the Eroticized Transference-Countertransference.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 25, 3:259-263

Cresci, M. and Fosshage, J. (2005)
Epilogue, Perspectives on a Case Study of Power and the Eroticized Transference-Countertransference.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 25, 3:388-394.

Fosshage, J. (2005)
Moments of therapeutic impasse: A brief discussion of Jody Messler Davies's "Whose bad objects are we anyway?: Repetition and our elusive love affair with evil."
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 156 (5), 759-769

Fosshage, J. (2005)
The explicit and implicit domains in psychoanalytic change.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol 25, 4: 516-539.
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Fosshage, J. (2005)
Commentary on paper by Steven H. Knoblauch.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 15 (6), 875-882.

Fosshage, J. (2005)
Le funzioni organizzative dell'attivita mentale del sogno.
Quaderni di Psicogogia, Analisi Transazionale E Scienze Umane. N. 43-2005, 17-57

Fosshage, J. (2006)
Affective experiences and honesty in the interaction: Discussion of Holly Levenkron's paper.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 26, 2:201-218.

Fosshage, J. (2006)
The organizing functions of dreams: A contemporary psychoanalytic model.
In Dreams, ed. M. Lansky, International Universities Press.

Fosshage, J. (2006)
When the music changes, it's possible to come out of the box: A relational self psychological perspective.
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, ed. W. Coburn, Vol. 1, 3: 329-339.

Fosshage, J. (2007)
The analyst's participation in co-creating the analytic relationship: Implicit and explicit dimensions of analytic change. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, ed. W. Coburn. Vol. 2, 2: 147-162.

Fosshage, J. (2007)
The organizing functions of dreaming: Pivotal issues in understanding and working with dreams.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 16: 213-221.
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Fosshage, J. (2007)
Searching for love and expecting rejection: Implicit and explicit dimensions in co-creating analytic change.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Vol. 7, 3, 326-347.
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Fosshage, J. (2007)
Psychoanalysis in the 21rst Century: Evolution and expansion within changing contexts. Presented at the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, New York City, Dec. 1, 2007.

Fosshage, J. (2008)
The organizing functions of dreams: A contemporary psychoanalytic model.
In The Dream After a Century: Symposium 2000 on Dreams,
ed. M. Lansky, International Universities Press, pp. 81-96.

Fosshage, J. (2008)
Discussion. In The Dream After a Century: Symposium 2000 on Dreams,
ed. M. Lansky, International Universities Press, pp. 119-138.

Fosshage, J. (2008)
Searching for love and expecting rejection: Implicit and explicit dimensions in co-creating analytic change. Selbstpsychologie.

Fosshage, J., (2009)
To touch or not to touch in the psychoanalytic arena.
Taboo or Not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis,
eds. B. Willock, R. Curtis, and L. Bohm, London: Karnac Press. Chapter 20: 327-350.

Fosshage, J. (2009)
The organizing functions of dreaming: Pivotal issues in understanding and working with dreams. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 1.

Fosshage, J. (2009)
Le funzioni organizzative dell'attivitá mentale del sogno.
Quaderni di Psicologia, Analisi Transazionale e Scienze Umane, 51: 110-145.

Fosshage, J. (2009)
The organizing functions of dream mentation.
www.dream.co.il (online Israeli dream journal).

Fosshage, J. (2009),
Le funzioni organizzative dell'attivitá mentale del sogno. Internet edition: www.psychomedia.it/cpat/articoli/43-fosshage.htm
[Introduction by Paolo Migone, n. 43/2005, pp. 12-16; n. 51/2009 pp. 105-109. Internet edition: www.psychomedia.it/cpat/articoli/43-migone.htm]).

Fosshage, J. and Hershberg, S. (2009)
Loving and Leaving: A Reappraisal of Analytic Termination.
Co-editors of issue, Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Vol. 29, Number 2.

Fosshage, J. and Hershberg, S. (2009)
Prologue and Epilogue, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 29, Number 2, pp. 99-100, 195-200.

Fosshage, J. (2009)
Some key features in the evolution of self psychology and psychoanalysis.
In Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology, eds. N. Vanderheide and W. J. Coburn, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1159, pp. 1-18.

Kiersky, S. and Fosshage, J. (2009)
Prologue. In Perspectives on a Neo-Klienian Clinical Presentation: The Process of Change. Kiersky, S. and Fosshage, J., Co-editors. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 29: 303.

Kiersky, S. and Fosshage, J. (2009)
Epilogue. In Perspectives on a Neo-Klienian Clinical Presentation: The Process of Change. Kiersky, S. and Fosshage, J., Co-editors. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 29: 354-356.

Fosshage, J. (2010)
Implicit and explicit pathways to psychoanalytic change.
In Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort of Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Uncertainty, ed. Jean Petrucelli. London: Karnac.

Fosshage, J. (2010)
The psychoanalysis world: Notes from my personal odyssey.
Kohut Memorial Lecture: October 24, 2008.
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Vol. 5, 2: 184-196.

Fosshage, J. (2010)
Zu Ehren von Frank Lachmann.
Selbstpsychologie, Vol. 39, 11, 1/2010: 46-48.

Fosshage, J. (2010)
Implicit and explicit dimensions of oedipal phenomenology: A reassessment.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 30, 6: 520-534.

Fosshage, J. (2011)
Development of individuality within a systems world.
In The Challenge of Individuality: New Perspectives in Psychoanalytic Contextualism, eds. William Coburn and Roger Frie. New York: Routledge. Chapter 6, pp. 89-105.

Fosshage, J. (2011)
How do we "know" what we "know?" And change what we "know?"
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21, 1: 1-20.

Fosshage, J. (2011)
The use and impact of the analyst's subjectivity with empathic and other listening/experiencing perspectives.
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. LXXX, 1.

Fosshage, J. (In press)
A close tracking of therapeutic action in the clinical exchange.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

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