Psychoanalytic Dialogues back issues from May 2006:
The Psychoanalytic Other: Commentary on Paper by Helen K. Gediman
May 01, 2006; ... Dr. Gediman locates the intersection of modern Freudian and relational theory in the arena of what she calls the "disclosures of everyday analysis" (p. 242). She suggests that because Freudian analysts, like their relational colleagues, work intersubjectively, relational theory does not itself ...
Facilitating Analysis With Implicit and Explicit Self-Disclosures
May 01, 2006; ... I propose to get beyond the false stereotypes that have divided contemporary Freudian and relational psychoanalysts with regard to self-disclosure. Understanding self-disclosures made by analysts of all persuasions in the course of their everyday work requires a relational and intersubjective ...
Disclosure, Dis-closure, diss/clothes/sure Commentary on Paper by Helen K. Gediman
May 01, 2006; ... In response to Gediman's paper, I argue that disclosure is really not a choice. It happens all the time, revealing how that which is co-constructed has always already been there. One dis-closes that which has already been (in some unformulated way) disclosed. This entails a radically different ...
The Illusion of Certainty in Self-Disclosure: Commentary on Paper by Helen K. Gediman/Reply to Commentaries
May 01, 2006; ... Christopher Bonovitz, PsyD The author argues that Gediman's assertion that self-disclosure does not require a new paradigm fails to recognize some of the fundamental tenets of Relational theory. The author stresses two main points. The first is that our self-disclosures derive their ...
"I Have a Lower Class Body"
May 01, 2006; ... The case presented in this paper demonstrates how the patient's use of poetry and body enactments illustrates the gestalt of her early trauma in which words alone are insufficient. A clinical example is used to exemplify both the patient's and the analyst's conscious and unconscious subjectivity ...
Words Just Don't Cut It: Commentary on Paper by Mary E. Sonntag
May 01, 2006; ... In this discussion, I highlight the use of bodies in the place of worded language in Sonntag's clinical work with her patient Olivia. Loewald (1980) described the embodied aspects of primary process making the words of secondary process meaningful. As a survivor of sexual abuse and numerous ...
Containers Without Lids
May 01, 2006; ... Infinity, that which is without limit, can strain consciousness. But the attempt to imagine everything can also bring forward the possibility of meaning. This paper takes up the question of consciousness and the emergence of being. As a story about birth, it owes allegiance to Kleinian accounts ...