@article{Boschan, author = {Bosch{\´a}n, P. J.}, title = {The Mastery of Countertransference or Mynothaur's Labyrinth}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 257-262.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 257-262.}, abstract = {This paper considers the fundamental change introduced by Ferenczi in1919 by proposing the use of countertransference as an instrument. Basically it reconsiders the concept of analytic neutrality; mastery of countertransference is reached through tolerating it, overcoming resistances against it, demanding a very intense involvement of the analyst, as opposed to the image of the surgeon or the mirror. The paper analyzes the implications of this position for psychoanalysis. It places these concepts in the scientific and personal context in which it was written, then follows the later developments of these ideas in Ferenczi's own work, as well as in that of some other authors, and comments on the effects of these ideas on the psychoanalytic movement. Finally it poses some questions regarding our present use of countertransference in clinical work, with two brief vignettes highlighting these points.}, language = {en} } @article{Boschan, author = {Boschan, P. J.}, title = {The unwelcome child and his dreams: reconceptualization of dreaming in trauma}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 60-65}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 60-65}, abstract = {Mechanisms of dreaming in the processing of early traumatic situations and their clinical utilization. The difference is established between dreams of >repetition<, which lack dream imagery and contain a great amount of anguish, consisting of bodily sensations which may last on awakening, and the >secondary dream< with imagery, into which the first type can be transformed when the capacity of the psychic apparatus to process the traumatic situation is increased through therapeutic work. This >secondarization< of the repetitive dream has a traumatolytic effect, allowing the patient to reach psychoanalytically the mechanisms and mental states prevailing in the traumatic situation, through the mechanism of dream autorepresentation described by Silberer. In some cases, as illustrated in the clinical material, it is possible to anticipate the event of episodes of somatic disease before they become clinically evident. The detailed analysis of dreams in patients with these characteristics is presented and discussed.}, language = {en} }