@article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {Supervisees' paradoxical need for knowledge}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 224-233.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 224-233.}, abstract = {Supervisors who wish to meet their supervisees' needs to grow as clinicians will encounter two paradoxical knowledge-related needs of supervisees. On one pole of this paradox is their need to assimilate new knowledge into their existing clinical knowledge; on the other pole is their need for acknowledgement, validation, and formulation of their unique experiential and unarticulated knowledge. Meeting this need helps the supervisees to balance regressive states and painful gaps between their own and their supervisors' knowledge, which might put the supervisory relationship at risk.}, language = {en} } @article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {Achieving and dissolving closures in supervision}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 234-241.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 234-241.}, abstract = {Therapists' quest for constructing meaning systems of their patients' experiences progresses in cycles. These cycles consist of: (1) efforts to achieve closures, propelled by the depressive position with its concomitant judgments, resolutions, and decisiveness, and (2) efforts to dissolve closures, propelled by the schizo-paranoid position, searching anxiously and excitedly for new ways to construct meaning. By struggling to facilitate their supervisees' cycles of achieving and dissolving closures, supervisors help them to grow as clinicians. Supervisees usually welcome the supervisors' help in constructing meaning systems and achieving closures. They become wary, however, when their supervisors suggest that they dismantle these systems and dissolve their closures because these suggestions undermine their self-assurance as well as their sense of morality, both nourished by the depressive position. Several approaches are suggested for supervisors to facilitate their supervisees' efforts to dissolve closures.}, language = {en} } @article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {Influences on patients' developing mentalization}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 3, 2018), pp. 157-165.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 3, 2018), pp. 157-165.}, abstract = {Analytic therapy enables patients to relive and repair failures to promote their mentalization by parental figures. However, therapists also fail temporarily to provide the patients with a growth-promoting environment when their patterns of reflexivity on the patients' experience are undermined. These temporary failures create new opportunities for therapists to access unformulated knowledge about their patients' experiences and enrich their reflexivity on them, and for the patients to promote their ability to hold themselves in their own minds.}, language = {en} } @article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {On patients' unique self-knowledge}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 4, 2018), pp. 229-240.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 4, 2018), pp. 229-240.}, abstract = {Patients contribute to analytic endeavors through a knowledge of their own unique ways of organizing their experience, of building an intersubjective space with significant others, of the type of life that they consider worth living, and primarily of their specific passions and yearnings. The more that therapists allow the patients' unique self-knowledge to influence their therapeutic perceptions and decisions, the further they will advance patients' status as co-experts working together with the therapist to create and formulate new, richer knowledge. In the present article, it is suggested that one of the main reasons why patients' self-knowledge is excluded from the therapeutic dialogue is that the persuasive power of the therapists' rich and deep knowledge challenges the patients' self-authority. Through an illustrative vignette, therapists are recommended to use a metacommunication intervention to restore the balance that has been undermined between the therapist's authority and the patient's self-authority.}, language = {en} } @article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {On regression and supervision}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 4, 2014), pp. 229-237-}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 4, 2014), pp. 229-237-}, abstract = {The centrality of the supervisory relationship to the professional development of supervisees may encourage dependency needs and regressive wishes. This process may undermine the delicate balance in supervision between an optimal didactic tension and an atmosphere of calmness and security. The present paper advises supervisors to take into account the gap in power and interests between their supervisees and themselves, and the temptation that may arise within them to use their supervisees' regression in order to avoid resistance. Such awareness will help them make controlled and appropriate use of such analytic powers and maintain the balance between supervisees' >regressive selves< and >mature selves.< In addition, a perception of supervisory relations as a space of mutual alternating regressive states is offered as an important aspect of supervisor-supervisee communication.}, language = {en} } @article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {On the strengthening and enlivening influence of being with patients and supervisees}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 118-128.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 118-128.}, abstract = {Analytic writers have studied existential anxiety or annihilation anxiety, emanating from traumatic disruptions to people's sense of going-on-being, reminders of their finitude, and facing a chaotic reality, and suggested that they can endure this anxiety by being with and living through it together with another person. The literature suggests that to be with patients who experience such anxiety, therapists need to indulge >narcissistically< in their own memories and fantasies of similar experiences, and, in parallel to the patients, enter transient regressive states. Sometimes, however, therapists are faced with a chaotic analytic reality that arouses existential anxiety in themselves, and seek to share it with their supervisors who, by experiencing parallel regressive states, can identify with their supervisees and grasp their experiences. Supervisors who consistently fail to be with their supervisees at such moments and persist in offering them new constructions of therapeutic materials might strengthen the supervisees' defensive operations and disrupt their development as therapists.}, language = {en} } @article{Yerushalmi, author = {Yerushalmi, Hanoch}, title = {Supervisees' professional development and the analytic community}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 1, 2022), pp. 024-033.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 1, 2022), pp. 024-033.}, abstract = {Children construct their inner worlds by internalizing real and imagined aspects of their parental figures and their families as whole objects with their relational configurations. These familial configurations are often evoked in the context of communities that, similarly to families, struggle to preserve and advance their unity and collective values, interests, and symbols. Supervisees acknowledge their internalized familial relational configurations when they explore their countertransferences and their transferential responses to the analytic community. Understanding these transferences in supervision may facilitate the process of assimilating the analytic community into supervisees' professional selves. Moreover, the supervisors represent and mediate both the community's balanced and flexible relational therapeutic positions and its complexities. These positions might provide the supervisees with new group-object experiences and change their defensively organized rigid familial relational configurations, thereby further integrating the supervisees' professional selves as well as strengthening the analytic community.}, language = {en} }