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Feldman T. The Couple Therapist as Moral Agent. FAMILY PROCESS 2022; 61:520-529. [PMID: 34028007 DOI: 10.1111/famp.12664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Partners in intimate relationships rely on each other to meet essential emotional needs. This mutual dependence creates reciprocal obligations, engendering a moral dimension to intimate relationships. This moral dimension involves questions of fairness, equity, and justice which are often central to couples' presenting complaints in treatment. This paper proposes that moral considerations in couple therapy are not only inevitable, but potentially beneficial, and illustrates how they can inform the therapist's case conceptualizations and interventions. This paper will also explore the therapist's responsible use of her moral influence through an examination of personal values. This paper utilizes concepts from psychodynamic and family systems theory to illustrate key points, but the ideas presented apply to therapists with diverse theoretical orientations.
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- Tamara Feldman
- Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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Barratt BB. Reconsidering Regression in Psychoanalysis: Notes on a Central Yet Controversial Concept and Its Relation to Free Association. Psychoanal Rev 2020; 107:99-122. [PMID: 32463314 DOI: 10.1521/prev.2020.107.2.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The concept of regression is schematically reviewed, focusing on the complexities and confusions that have surrounded this contested notion in the course of psychoanalytic history. Clinical illustrations are used to suggest descriptive differences in regressive functioning occurring in the course of psychoanalysis. It is argued that there may be an important distinction between the sense-making (adaptational, maturational, and integrative) aims of therapeutic discourse and the distinctively deconstructive conditions of a psychoanalytic process. In this context, the "regressive" impact of the free-associative method is illustrated, and on this basis, it is suggested that there is a significant and profound difference between "free association" conceived simply as uncensored storytelling and "full-on free association" as closer to the babbling of a stream of consciousness.
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- Barnaby B Barratt
- c/o The Heritage Stone House, 22 Virginia Ave., Parkmore (JHB), 2196, South Africa. E-mail:
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Bugliani A. Who Do the Words Come From: A Psychoanalytical Tale. Psychoanal Rev 2019; 106:573-587. [PMID: 31877073 DOI: 10.1521/prev.2019.106.6.573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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My first experience in analysis with a classically trained analyst left an unexpected but profound imprint on me. After enduring that kind of one-person analysis for eleven years, I was not left with a favorable impression of the method. Originally trained as a classical psychoanalyst, I have since chosen to work intersubjectively and interactively, and I am shifting more deliberately and with more conviction toward an assimilative integrative psychotherapy approach. In this paper I tell the story of my personal analysis and outline the conclusions I have drawn from it that created a seismic shift in my way of thinking and working as a psychoanalyst.
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In this paper the author asks, "How long is the life of an intersubjective field?" She proposes that it is possible for the field to remain active and instructive even after formal sessions have ended: This occurs in her case of Carla, a young woman who terminates prematurely. Carla enters treatment in a downward spiral of severe trauma symptoms that began subsequent to her rape, a decade earlier. Although Carla's symptoms diminish and the analysis continues to be productive, it suddenly ends in an impasse, leaving the analyst perplexed and feeling professionally insufficient. Months later, she has three dreams pertaining to Carla and her rape. Largely employing Jessica Benjamin's recognition theory and her representation of the intersubjective third, as well as contemporary Bionian thinking, the paper depicts how countertransference dreaming is one example of how the intersubjective field can carry on the psychoanalytic function-even outside of formal treatment.
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Davies JM. The “Once and Future” Focus of a Relational Psychoanalysis: Discussion of “Vitalizing Enactment”. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2018.1459401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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This paper discusses aspects of ethical presence in psychoanalysis, and the possible use of apology in the therapeutic process. The author roughly delineates two periods in the history of psychoanalysis regarding the ethical dimension-the early classical period which is influenced by Freud's ethics of honesty, which gradually evolves towards the more recent intersubjectively-influenced period, necessitating the assimilation of an ethics of relationships. It is suggested that explicit theorizing of the ethical dimension into psychoanalysis offers added value to its effectiveness, and a framework is presented for combining relational, intersubjectively informed ethical dialogue, with contributions of classical technique, enriching the therapeutic potential of psychoanalytic work.
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Freud adhered to the idea that psychoanalysis is a science and that truth is one. The transition from a realistic epistemology to an epistemology of subjective idealism in psychoanalytic thought was accompanied by the splintering of the "one" realistic truth into a multiplicity of truths: realistic-correspondent, ideal, subjective-existential, intersubjective, coherent, and pragmatic truths. The present paper, employing the concept of "truth axes," explores these truths as they relate to basic human needs, self- states, and the structuring of subjectivity. Truth axes are posited as organizing principles of the psyche aimed at achieving stable images of reality across critical dimensions of the subject's life. Personality and experience render some axes dominant, while others remain foreclosed and dissociated. In this construal, the psychoanalytic process concerns the detailing, depicting, and understanding of the various truth axes. The psychological definition of truth illuminates its relation to clinical objectives and methodologies and emphasizes the ethical dimension involved in prioritization of truths. These ideas are illustrated by clinical vignettes.
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The therapeutic benefits of enactments are addressed. Relevant literature reveals disparate conceptions about the nature and use of enactments. Clarification of the term is discussed. This analyst's theoretical and technical evolution is addressed; it is inextricably related to using enactments. How can it not be? A taxonomy of enactments is presented. The article considers that enactments may be fundamental in the evolution from orthodox to contemporary analytic technique. Assumptions underlying enactments are explored, as are guidelines for using enactments. Finally, the article posits that enactments have widened the scope of analysis and contributed to its vitality.
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- Stanley Stern
- Served as a Training and Supervising Analyst for the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, The Southwest Arizona Psychoanalytic Society, and the Arizona Psychoanalytic Society. He practices in Phoenix, AZ. He is also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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Emanuel C. Let the Yoga Do You: Clinical Decision-Making, Ambiguity, and Certainty. PSYCHOANALYTIC INQUIRY 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2016.1214028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cooper SH. Mourning, Regeneration, and the Psychic Future: A Discussion of Levine’s “A Mutual Survival of Destructiveness and Its Creative Potential for Agency and Desire”. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2016.1123517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Stern DB. Introduction to IARPP Plenary Panel, Toronto, June 2015. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2016.1123519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Almond R. “What Do These Analysts Want?” A Response to Levine and Wilson on Desire and Influence. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2015.1034567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Corbett K. The Analyst’s Private Space: Spontaneity, Ritual, Psychotherapeutic Action, and Self-Care. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2014.970964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Cooper SH. The Things We Carry: Finding/Creating the Object and the Analyst’s Self-Reflective Participation. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2014.970963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Foehl JC. Affective Relatedness in Stance and Process: Commentary on Papers by Stuart A. Pizer and Barbara Pizer. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2014.870825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Rehm M. Meditations on Aggression, Loss, Discovery, and Influence in Psychoanalysis. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2013.832593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hoffman IZ. Response to Slavin: Considering the Evolutionary and Existential Contexts of Dialectical Constructivism. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2013.794645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hoffman IZ. Response to Layton: Considering the Sociopolitical Context of Dialectical Constructivism. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2013.794644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Kahn E. On being “up to other things”: The nondirective attitude and therapist-frame responses in client-centered therapy and contemporary psychoanalysis. PERSON-CENTERED & EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIES 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2012.700285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Coburn WJ. Search Yourself: Commentary on Paper by Kenneth A. Frank. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2012.679602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Frank KA. Strangers to Ourselves: Exploring the Limits and Potentials of the Analyst's Self Awareness in Self- and Mutual Analysis. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2012.679601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Frankel J. The analytic state of consciousness as a form of play and a foundational transference. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 2011; 92:1411-36. [PMID: 22212035 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00465.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The analytic state of consciousness is a particular regressive altered state in the patient characterized by an increased sensitivity and reactivity to impressions arising from both the inner world and the analyst, a heightened sense of dependence and vulnerability, a permeability of boundaries in regard to the analyst, and a shift toward functioning on the basis of omnipotent fantasy in the analytic relationship. These changes are accompanied by a feeling of realness of one's psychic reality, but without any true loss of reality testing. Based on an analysis of the structure of play, this state can itself be understood as a kind of play; it serves as a foundational transference underlying more specific transference manifestations; and it is central to the analytic process. Over time, in response to physical aspects of the analytic setting, its safety, the analyst's emotional accompaniment, and a generally restrained analytic stance (an issue I discuss in some detail), it emerges in a more developed form that promotes symbolization and ownership of aspects of self, greater emotional presence, and a deeper sense of meaning in one's experience. Additionally, the concept of the analytic state of consciousness provides a new look at the role of abstinence and frustration in analytic process.
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Coburn WJ. A Warrior's Stance: Commentary on Paper by Terry Marks-Tarlow. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2011. [DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2011.545335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Fosshage JL. Implicit and Explicit Dimensions of Oedipal Phenomenology: A Reassessment. PSYCHOANALYTIC INQUIRY 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2010.518535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Shaw D. Enter Ghosts: The Loss of Intersubjectivity in Clinical Work With Adult Children of Pathological Narcissists. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/10481880903559120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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