@article{Goldner2005,
  author    = {Goldner, Virginia},
  title     = {Therapeutic impasses in contemporary psychoanalytic treatment: Revisiting the double bind hypothesis},
  journal   = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 105-117.},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {This commentary focuses on how psychoanalysts may theorize the therapeutic action of reading and hearing poetry. It is argued that poetic action is a densely layered one- and two-person process that achieves its psychological effects by potentiating the mental space that is >thirdness,< in Jessica Benjamin's (2004) lexicon. Beginning with ideas about how poetry works on a single subjectivity, Goldner then considers the complex intersubjective and mutative processes that are set in motion when an analyst reads a poem to a patient. Building on Bollas's (1987) construct, the >transformational object< and on Ogden's (1998, 1999) and Akhtar's (2000) theories of poetic action, the author proposes that poetry can be usefully understood as a >transformational third.<},
  language  = {en}
}