@article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {The Tree of Knowledge: Good and Evil: Conflicting Interpretations}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 807-815.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 807-815.}, abstract = {The dynamics of the larger society inevitably are manifest in intrapsychic dynamics, as well as interpersonal interactions, in and out of the psychoanalytic consulting room. Traditional psychoanalytic inattention to the social world predisposes analysts to enact unreflectively some of the racist and classist patterns in the social world around us in our clinical work. This author argues first that U.S. psychoanalysis, as a field, has sought to define itself as white, thereby demonstrating the influence of racism in this country. Second, in a clinical example, the author demonstrates the subtle imprint of racism and classism in a dyad in which both participants are conventionally classified as white. He concludes that open discussion of U.S. history and of the past and current social location of psychoanalysis as a field goes hand in hand with increased awareness of the ways in which social forces organize psychoanalytic interactions.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Toward the Coexistence of Effort and Lack: Commentary on Paper by Cynthia Dyess and Tim Dean}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 321-346.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 321-346.}, abstract = {I argue that on both the small-scale level of the interpersonal relationship, and the large-scale level of society, the manic defense makes it difficult to care about others, and so militates against a sense of social responsibility. I address four basic questions: what is the nature of social responsibility? What is the nature of the manic defense? How does the manic defense interfere with the potential for social responsibility? And, on a more general level, what are the issues with respect to methodology for efforts such as this one to link psychoanalysis and social theory?}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {You Say Oedipal, I Say Postoedipal A Consideration of Desire and Hostility in the Analytic Relationship}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 909-916.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 909-916.}, abstract = {I consider the psychoanalytic significance of taking account of the historical context, across generations, in which the emotional lives of analysands take shape.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Two quibbles. Commentary on Kenneth A. Frank's paper}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 405-408.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 405-408.}, abstract = {In this response to Rustin, Goldman, and Schwartz, I note the ways in which their commentaries have stimulated my thinking further.}, language = {en} } @article{AltmanMesslerDavies, author = {Altman, Neil and Messler Davies, Jody}, title = {Some distinguishing features of Heinz Kohut's self psychology}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 359-360.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 359-360.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {An interview with Otto Kernberg}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 029-049.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 029-049.}, abstract = {This paper considers, from a psychoanalytic point of view, work with urban poor patients. A previous attempt, from an ego psychological perspective, to adapt psychoanalytic theory and technique for work with such patients is reviewed. An attempt is then made to elaborate an object relations perspective, based largely on the work of Fairbairn. The two approaches are compared and contrasted, especially with respect to common problems that arise in work with this group of people, such as missed appointments, crises, and requests for >concrete< help. Finally, there is a review of how the structure and policies of the public clinics in which most poor patients are seen impact on analytically oriented work.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Analysis of a case of transsexualism}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 085-092.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 085-092.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Ego psychological and object relational approaches - is it either/or -. Commentary on Neil Altman's >psychoanalysis and the urban poor<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 595-604.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 595-604.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Interior experience within analytic process}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 547-551.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 547-551.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Reply to Commentaries}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 589-605.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 589-605.}, abstract = {This paper begins with an analysis of race as a social construction and then follows the argument that, at a deep structural level, race and racism are organized by the same rational-irrational polarity of Enlightenment philosophy that informs psychoanalytic structural theory. The heart of the paper is formed by two case examples, one from my own practice and one from Leary (1997). I argue that unconscious racism is to be expected in our clinical work at this point in history and that truly reparative efforts depend on an acknowledgement of racism in the transference-countertransference matrix.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {Reply to commentaries by Kindler and Shapiro}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 633-638.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 633-638.}, language = {en} } @article{Altman, author = {Altman, Neil}, title = {The role of the analyst's inadvertent self-revelations}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 439-446.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 439-446.}, abstract = {In this discussion of papers by Gillian Straker and Melanie Suchet, the author draws some links between the two papers in the interest of expanding analysts' understanding of the nature of whiteness as part of a racist discourse.}, language = {en} }