TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. A. T1 - Orpha Reviving: Toward an Honorable Recognition of Elisabeth Severn JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 241-246. N2 - This paper considers the fundamental change introduced by Ferenczi in 1919 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. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. A. T1 - >To return, to eat, to tell the story<: Primo Levi’s lessons on living and dying in the aftermath of trauma JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 66-70. N2 - This article invites Primo Levi, the internationally esteemed citizen of Turin, Italy and survivor of the Auschwitz to instruct post 9/11 psychoanalysis in five lessons on living and dying in the aftermath of severe trauma. Relying on excerpts from Levi's writings, the author invites Levi to speak to the reader words of warning concerning contemporary psychoanalysis' benign omnipotence in embracing overly simplistic theories of cure, resiliency and psychic repatriation of the human spirit in the aftermath of severe trauma. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. A. T1 - The Strength of >Creative Impulse< in the Aftermath of Trauma JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 3, April 1998), pp. 159-162. Y1 - 1998 ER -