TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccoli, Velleda C. T1 - Psychiatric pain and deliberate suffering JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 683-698. N2 - This paper addresses the gender of the analyst as an important factor in the shaping of the analytic experience. Specifically, it focuses on the notion that female analysts bring something different from what male analysts bring to the analytic dyad and that this influences and shapes the analysts’ translation of the patients’ experience – determining treatment course and therapeutic enactments. It begins with the idea that, for some men, working with a female analyst may ease the processing and metabolization of their aggression – allowing for a (re) integration of it with their sexuality and desire. The clinical material of a male analysand who sought treatment from a woman analyst is used to explore this idea within a post-Lacanian framework incorporating Kristeva's work on the maternal chora, the imaginary father or third, and the journey that the infant must make from the real to the symbolic, from biology to desire. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccoli, Velleda C. T1 - Psychoanalysis and Social Criticism: Reply to Commentaries JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 713-716. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccoli, Velleda C. T1 - Reply to commentary JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 815-821. N2 - This. Reply clarifies the ideas originally presented in >Beyond Milk and the Good Breast: Reconfiguring Psychoanalytic Dyads< (PD 9/5, 1999) in response to Steven Reisner's commentary. It faults Dr. Reisner's reading of Lacan and Kristeva, as well as his use of male-gendered metaphors to transform my clinical material into a different analytic treatment. I conclude that, by arriving at such differing conclusions regarding theory and clinical treatment, he inadvertently proves, and enacts, the basis of my argument: that the gender of the analyst is an important variable that affects psychoanalytic formulations, treatment, and outcome. Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccoli, Velleda C. T1 - The reconstruction of early nonverbal relatedness in the treatment of difficult patients a special form of empathy JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 337-348. N2 - This essay elaborates the notion of chemistry between people and how we understand it psychoanalytically. The author puts forth the idea that certain experiences are lost or diluted when put into words, yet seem to come to life through aesthetic media that do not rely on words (art, music, poetry). Although psychoanalysts are often tied to interpretation in the belief that signifying experience helps to process it, patients not only seek understanding but also have a need to be known and appreciated experientially. Perhaps that is why they often privilege some experiences as magical or chemical and are reluctant to deconstruct them in treatment. Y1 - 2004 ER -