@article{Sussillo, author = {Sussillo, Mary V.}, title = {What's disclosed in self-disclosures? Gender, sexuality, and the analyst's subjectivity. Commentary on paper by Samuel Gerson}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 559-566.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 559-566.}, abstract = {In. Replying to the discussions of Gilbert Cole and Stefanie Solow Glennon, I focus on several issues raised, including the continuing intrapsychic relationship with a dead parent who may have been destructive to the patient the analyst's facilitating role in enabling the patient to connect with, and construct the future of, the lost relationship the potential meaning of an enactment with a bereaved patient and some thoughts on the dyad's needs to work creatively postloss in multiple affective time zones.}, language = {en} } @article{Sussillo, author = {Sussillo, Mary V.}, title = {What does the physicist know? Thraldom and insecurity in the relationship of psychoanalysis to physics}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 499-527.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 499-527.}, abstract = {The author considers a relational perspective of mourning and suggests an elaboration and extension of Freud's theory of mourning with a sharper focus on the dialectic of holding on and letting go of the formative lost object relationship. Sussillo argues that Freud's early (1917) theoretical tilt toward the relinquishment of affective ties with the dead, later expanded and culminated in a deeper relational sensibility, was shaped by his developing theories and personal losses. Her position is that the analyst can help facilitate the adult patient's affective experience of felt continuity with the absent object, lost in adolescence, that ultimately allows the separation and the transformation of the primitive bond. Sussillo's perspective represents a synthesis of relational theories in a broad sense - also informed by attachment theory, contemporary bereavement research, infant research, and developmental theory. This thesis is illustrated by a clinical example that highlights the therapeutic action.}, language = {en} }