Psychoanalytic Dialogues back issues from May 2007:
Mentalization and Metaphor, Acknowledgment and Grief: Forms of Transformation in the Reflective Space
May 01, 2007; ... This paper illustrates the clinical application of current theorizing about mentalization and reflective functioning and shows how it can synergize with established analytic concepts. The paper presents a single case, that of a middle-aged woman patient with a moderate but significant history of ...
Working in the Metaphor: Commentary on Paper by Stephen Seligman
May 01, 2007; ... This paper expands on Seligman's ideas about mentalization and the challenges of working with patients who cannot mentalize. Seligman's clinical presentation demonstrates that much valuable analytic work takes place without explicit reference to the transference. Drawing on Britton's notion of ...
How to Help a Thin-Skinned Person: Commentary on Paper by Stephen Seligman
May 01, 2007; ... Stephen Seligman's treatment of Harriet illustrates the typical challenges and basic technical principles in working with narcissistically sensitive people. Often, with such patients there are struggles around the frame, especially issues of payment and cancellation policies. Sometimes the ...
Forms of Transformation in the Reflective Space: Clarifying "Mentalization" Theory Through a Clinical Application: Commentary on Paper by Stephen Seligman
May 01, 2007; ... I am very pleased to be given the opportunity to discuss Professor Seligman's paper. I find the paper beautifully written and extremely interesting. It touches on many relevant issues in terms of developmental psychology, differential psychopathology, and clinical technique. In this discussion I ...
Technique as a Case-Specific Problem: Reply to Commentaries
May 01, 2007; ... Seligman's appreciative response to the discussions of his paper is most concerned with the issues raised in Leon Kleimberg's critique of his "modifications of technique." The dialogue between Kleimberg's and his point of view, with the latter echoed as it in Case and Dent's and Frosch's, ...
Shame in Relation to the Body, Sex, and Death: A Clinical Exploration of the Psychotic Levels of Shame
May 01, 2007; ... This paper explores the topic of shame in relation to the body, viewing it as the expression of a basic conflict that threatens to obstruct the growth of personality by breaking up the body-mind relationship. The paper presents the psychoanalysis of a psychotic patient whose paranoid shame was ...
The Body and Mind (Including of the Analyst) in the Treatment of a Psychotic State: Some Reflections: Commentary on Paper by Riccardo Lombardi
May 01, 2007; ... Riccardo Lombardi's paper is considered from a British (Independent) object relations perspective. Although the paper deals with the experience of shame and its relationship to fantasies about sex and death and how these are experienced (including in the body), shame is also a profoundly object ...
Whose Who in the Psychoanalytic Situation: Subject, Object, and Enactment in the Relational and Contemporary Kleinian Traditions
May 01, 2007; ... The concept of enactment, although it has probably has become an overused term in the Relational literature, is a relatively new one for the Contemporary Kleinians of London. In explicating and synthesizing these different theoretical perspectives (Relational and Contemporary Kleinians), the ...
Seizing Perfume, Propped by Paradox
May 01, 2007; ... An odyssey from the terror of a bout with cancer to the recognition of some of the fear, as more primordial than the fear of separation and object loss, a constitutive given of our animal bodies, essential to survival and intrinsic to our insufficiency; to the cancer experience of terror ...
Is Verbal Symbolization A Necessary Requirement of Analytic Change?
May 01, 2007; ... This paper considers the potential of bidirectional, nonverbal (procedural) enactments for effecting therapeutic change. Whether such nonverbal enactments need to be symbolized for clinical change to occur is discussed. Clinical and conceptual material is presented which indicates that changes ...