@misc{Shabad, author = {Shabad, Peter}, title = {Review essay Symposium on Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Psychotic anxieties and containment: A personal account of an analysis with Winnicott by Margaret Little}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 703-709.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 703-709.}, abstract = {In this commentary, I discuss Anthony Bass's humane, courageous article about the unconscious connection between analyst and analysand. His focus on the meeting of unconscious minds lends a refreshingly democratic tilt to the treatment relationship. His primary emphasis on the unconscious, however, seems to de-emphasize the vital role of consciousness and its capacity to engage the revelations of the unconscious. Similarly, Bass's theoretical focus on a fundamental underlying unity, though of great significance, seems to minimize the importance of separateness and the fact that the analyst and analysand have discrepant experiences. Bass's treatment of Ralph, a patient with terminal cancer, highlights the differences in the experiences of both participants as well as the underlying human frailties they have in common. In this light, I suggest that Ralph's relationship with Bass enabled him to >live before dying,< to separate and gain a sense of integrity before returning to the whole.}, language = {en} }