@article{Vaslamatzis, author = {Vaslamatzis, Grigoris}, title = {Memories, or attempts to dream undreamt traumas? >Souvenirs dormants< (Sleeping memories) by Patrick Modiano, under the gaze of Thomas Ogden}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 1, 2020), pp. 022-026.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 1, 2020), pp. 022-026.}, abstract = {In >Sleeping memories< (2017), French writer Patrick Modiano confronts the past and his memories in a different way compared with his previous novels, as he keeps trying to revisit and reprocess them. In this book he adds a new method, the dreaming revision of memories, especially traumatic ones, turning to the work of Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, >Les r{\^e}ves et les moyens de les diriger: Observations pratiques.< I would suggest that in this way he dreams undreamt traumas, thereby transforming them. In doing so, Modiano meets Thomas Ogden's art of psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} } @article{Vaslamatzis, author = {Vaslamatzis, Grigoris}, title = {Object-related and intersubjective processes in psychoanalysis: A twofold perspective}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 167-172.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 167-172.}, abstract = {The author follows Bion's, Ogden's and the Barangers' formulations on the intersubjective field of analysis and begins with the hypothesis that, if the analytic situation aspires to mental growth and not just to insight, the new relationship becomes of particular importance. He presents the clinical case of a patient whose archaic relationship was experienced as a rather depriving one. The initial phase of analysis had periods of incomprehension but allowed for a certain degree of interpretive work. In the second phase, it seemed that the intersubjective relationship and interaction created a >field< towards growth.}, language = {en} } @article{GinieriCoccossisVaslamatzis, author = {Ginieri-Coccossis, Maria and Vaslamatzis, Grigoris}, title = {Dysregulation and Containment in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of a Poorly Controlled Diabetic Patient}, series = {The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 36 (2008), pp. 033-048.}, journal = {The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 36 (2008), pp. 033-048.}, language = {en} } @article{GinieriCoccossisVaslamatzis, author = {Ginieri-Coccossis, Maria and Vaslamatzis, Grigoris}, title = {Truths, Reveries, Internal Moments of Meeting: Reflections on the dialectics of the analytic relationship}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 3, 2014), pp. 171-182.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 3, 2014), pp. 171-182.}, abstract = {Conceptualizing intersecting psychical dynamics taking place within the analytic relationship, the concept of truth is considered as an integral element of the patient's unrepresented, subjective self-experiences, particularly in respect to traumatic aspects. Truth is also conceptualized as a process of exploration of traumatic elements emerging dynamically in the context of transference. During such processes, it is possible that the patient's traumatic truth may collide with certain aspects of the analyst's mental life affecting deeply his/her phantasy and stirring strong feelings and representations of traumatic self-experiences of personal and subjective meaning. These instances are vital intersubjective aspects of the analytic relationship. They facilitate the exploration of the patient's unconscious inner truth and are signified as internal moments of meeting, emphasizing a psychical interchange between the analytic dyad and creation of a mental-cradle, a space for exploring and representing the patient's traumatic self-experiences. Clinical material is provided from the psychotherapy of a young woman with borderline psychopathology and unrepresented traumatic parental loss and migration. Discussion brings together basic theoretical conceptions regarding dynamic, joint mental functions of transference and countertransference and indicates the utility of actualizing disturbing countertransference experiences and the analyst's personal recourses and subjectivity for the exploration of the patient's truth.}, language = {en} }