Recently added articles from Psychoanalytic Dialogues:
EDITORS' NOTE
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue marks Psychoanalytic Dialogues' \9th year of publication. Hopeful as they were when they started the journal in 1991, Stephen Mitchell and his colleagues could not have anticipated their effect on the broader psychoanalytic world. In the years since, many original relational ideas ...
"You Must Remember This"
Jan 01, 2009; ... The question of a theory of analytic change is approached through a consideration of analytic impasse. Impasse is considered in relation to impasse in the analyst, linked to an impasse in some forms of mourning in the analyst. The analyst's impasse is considered in the light of character ...
The Case of Pamela
Jan 01, 2009; ... The analysis of Pamela is described, followed by verbatim process of one session. An upbringing of emotional neglect, overstimulation, violent abuse, and lack of boundaries in a family with generations of trauma had left Pamela clinging to a rigid persona built around her abilities to drive ...
Remarks on the Case of Pamela
Jan 01, 2009; ... This is a discussion of Robert Grossmark's paper: "The Case of Pamela." It emphasizes the trauma in her early upbringing and uses her own words to describe the severe damage this did to both her physical and her emotional sense of existence. It touches on the crumbling of her ability to trust, ...
Discussion of Robert Grossmark's Case of Pamela
Jan 01, 2009; ... The author discusses Robert Grossmark's "Case of Pamela" from the perspective of developmental (relational) trauma and offers the view that Pamela's remarkable growth as well as the stunning power of the clinical process that made it possible is best illuminated from the vantage point of ...