TY - JOUR A1 - Vaslamatzis, G. T1 - Projective identification, containment and sojourn in the psyche: Clinical notes on a specific type of transference-countertransference interaction JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 14 (No. 2, 2005), pp. 116-119. N2 - This paper suggests that the interplay between transference and countertransference is considered to be a valuable channel of communication. The author puts an emphasis on the containing function of the analyst. The patient strives for an experience of an object (analyst) that tolerates and copes with the patient's projections. There are some moments when analysts feel themselves to be invaded, controlled or abused by their patient's products. As Bion has postulated, this situation takes the form of a sojourn in the analyst's psyche. Clinical vignettes are given to provide support for the ways in which the analyst contains and elaborates the projections of the patients in his or her own mind and the therapeutic role that these processes have. Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vaslamatzis, G. T1 - On the Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Depressive Personality JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 11 (No. 1, March 2002), pp. 61-66. N2 - In order to discuss the depressive personality we have first to distinguish between this clinical entity and other types of depressive psychopathology that might also be chronic. The character traits and psychodynamics of the depressive personality confirm that there is a special group of patients, who belong to a depressive disorder continuum. The particular technical problems that depressive personality present are: (1) the inability to enjoy anything and the consequences of this on the therapist's experience and interventions, and (2) the negative therapeutic reaction which threatens the analytic process and the therapist's competence. If we combine transference/ extratransference interpretations with an >empathetic understanding< approach to systematic confrontation and interpretation, we can therefore justify the need for a slightly modified psychoanalytic technique in the treatment of the depressive personality. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vaslamatzis, G. T1 - On the process of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the borderline depressive patient JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 4 (No. 2, June 1995), pp. 11-118. Y1 - 1995 ER -