Recently added articles from Psychoanalytic Inquiry:
How Can a Writer Describe the Deep Emotional Experience of a Psychoanalysis? "As One Forms One's Preconceptions of a Cathedral by the Height of Its Bell Tower"
Sep 01, 2008; ... This article is devoted to the importance of interpersonal and phenomenological perspectives in writing about an analytic relationship that can convey the emotional depth and intensity necessary for the analysis to be successful enabling the patient to alter her life. The writer should be able ...
Discussion
Sep 01, 2008; ... This discussion of the articles that make up "The Writing Cure: The Effects of Clinical Writing on the Analyst and Analysis" raises issues about the wisdom of seeking a formula for case report writing, both because formulas do not help people write well and because the formula proposed ...
My Experience with the Panel on Writing
Sep 01, 2008; ... For the June 2004 APsA Conference I was invited by this Panel to present a case in order to examine a sample of my written analytic process. I was intrigued by this invitation. Although I had had some successful experiences speaking about my analytic cases in a variety of teaching situations, I ...
Writing, Rewriting, and Working Through
Sep 01, 2008; ... This article describes the process of writing about one's clinical work using the help of a writing mentor. A variety of impediments and interferences to clinical writing are examined in detail. The author demonstrates the ways that these may reflect unconscious responses in the analyst and can ...
Discussion Group on Writing About Your Analytic Work in a Case Report
Sep 01, 2008; ... At the Spring 2004 meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association, a group of psychoanalysts assembled at a discussion group on writing about the psychoanalytic process. The Chair and two of the Co-chairs are former members of the Certification Committee of the American Psychoanalytic ...
Writing About the Psychoanalytic Process
Sep 01, 2008; ... The written description of psychoanalytic process is basic to our professional communication. It underlies our study, teaching, research, and the way we evaluate aspects of our training. We have been hampered by a lack of an accepted method for translating our clinical work into written form ....
EPILOGUE
Sep 01, 2008; ... It is sometimes useful, as we contemplate writing about an analysis, to think that what we are about to do is to tell a story. In one iteration of this story, we are describing how one person helped another to gain a fuller picture of his or her life story or narrative. Before the analysis, the ...
Forging an Analytic Identity Through Clinical Writing
Sep 01, 2008; ... In this article, I consider the manner in which the created object reveals the creator through consideration of the theoretical contributions of Winnicott and Bucci followed by the creative contributions of the painter Cézanne and the poet/psychoanalyst Akhtar. This leads to Bernstein's format ...
Reading Treatment Reports: The Writer, the Editor, and the Analyst or The Value of Certification
Sep 01, 2008; ... The writing of treatment reports is a neglected part of psychoanalytic training. The basis of the certification procedure of the American Psychoanalytic Association is the demonstrated ability to convey in writing what had occurred in treatments applicants had conducted. The paradoxical ...
PROLOGUE
Sep 01, 2008; ... The seeds for this issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry were planted about fifteen years ago, when several of the authors (Bernstein, Bornstein, Rosenbaum) became aware that many contemporary psychoanalysts experienced difficulty and distress when they tried to describe their clinical work in ...
Discussion of Contributions to Psychoanalytic Inquiry Issue on Analytic Writing
Sep 01, 2008; ... Over a 150 years ago, before the birth of Freud, a professional writer (Hawthorne, 1850) described what, today, we would consider the essence of the analytic process. So Roger Chillingworth-the man of skill-the kind and friendly physician-strove to go deep into his patient's bosom, ...
Structuring Case Reports to Promote Debate
Jul 01, 2008; ... Psychoanalytic case reports play a role in the development of treatment methods and in the discussion of alternative theoretical concepts, but are especially important as part of the psychoanalytic educational process. Their practical use, however, is characterized by difficulties in ...
To Be or Not to Be a Psychoanalyst-How Do We Know a Candidate Is Ready to Qualify? Difficulties and Controversies in Evaluating Psychoanalytic Competence
Jul 01, 2008; ... What constitutes competent psychoanalytic work, what criteria are used to evaluate psychoanalytic competence and how can we exchange about these matters among colleagues of different psychoanalytic orientations? These are the core questions investigated in an ongoing project of the European ...
A Course on the Supervisory Process for Candidates ... and Supervisors: An Attempt to Address Inconsistencies in Psychoanalytic Education and the Fundamental Paradox of Psychoanalytic Training
Jul 01, 2008; ... The author describes the content of a course on The Supervisory Process he has taught candidates for three years. He offers a rationale for the course in the context of the lack of training in supervision, inconsistencies in the approach to psychoanalytic education and a lack of appreciation for ...
Does Anything Go in Psychoanalytic Supervision?
Jul 01, 2008; ... The supervisory situation should provide conditions in which learning can develop and the candidate can integrate his personal and professional experiences, theoretical knowledge, and his personality for a competent participation in and handling of the psychoanalytic situation. The supervisory ...
Shaming Psychoanalytic Candidates
Jul 01, 2008; ... Some sources of shame in analytic training are inevitable, while others could be avoided. I emphasize the shame-inducing aspects of analytic training that are present regardless of the helpful intentions of supervisors and teachers. I consider some possible long term effects of candidates' shame ...
PROLOGUE
Jul 01, 2008; ... Psychoanalytic training was institutionalized in 1922 at the Berlin Congress. It was built on the tripartite model: personal analysis as the basis, to get in touch with the method, as well as with the influence of the unconscious on everyday as well as professional life; didactic training to ...
Anxiety in Psychoanalytic Training From the Candidate's Point-of-View
Jul 01, 2008; ... The effectiveness of analytic practice and technique essentially depends upon the personal capability of the analyst; indeed, it is only through this person in practice that analysis can have an effect. Therefore, the person, as a whole, is trained and evaluated. During the period from 1997 to ...
Shuttle Analysis, Shuttle Supervision, and Shuttle Life-Some Facts, Experiences, and Questions
Jul 01, 2008; ... Tremendous effort supported the spreading of psychoanalysis in what was formerly known as "Eastern Europe." Since 2002, the Han Groen Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute of Eastern Europe has integrated this work. In many cases, training components had to be provided in "shuttle format." Shuttle ...
Becoming a School: Developing Learning Objectives for Psychoanalytic Education
Jul 01, 2008; ... Data collected from multiple psychoanalytic institutes in the United States, indicate that the lack of clear guidelines for progression and graduation compromises psychoanalytic training in many ways (Cabaniss, Glick, and Roose, 2000). Educational research suggests that learning objectives and ...