TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - The Grammar of Irrationality: What Psychoanalytic Dream Study Can Tell Us About the Brain. JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 41 (2005), pp. 203-222. Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - The Gay Harry Sack Sullivan: Interactions Between His Life, Clinical Work. and Theory. JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 41 (2005), pp. 001-020. Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - Psychological aspects of the AIDS epidemic: A fifteen-year perspective. JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (1997), pp. 089-107. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with schizophrenics, then and now: Discussion of Ann Silver. JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (1997), pp. 251-262. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - Consultation from the Consultant's Perspective JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 001-025. N2 - Dreams reported in psychoanalysis may reflect not only the transference of the patient, but also the countertransference, counterresistance, and counteranxiety of the psychoanalyst. Because of the communicative capacity of dreams, the analyst may use the patient's dreams as supervision. Objective signs are described that may indicate countertransference interference in the analyst's dream interpretation. Through a process of reciprocal, interactive dream interpretation, the dream's meaning about the transference – countertransference matrix can be clarified. Usually, there is an intermediate stage in working on a dream, during which the dream meaning is enacted in the dream-interpretation process. Clinical examples include the >Lovely Dream< reported by Freud, along with examples from the casebook of Gill and Hoffman (1982) and from the author's own practice. Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - Bridging natural science and Hermeneutics: An oxymoron or a conjunction? Commentary on paper by Mauricio Cortina JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 627-637. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - A Rule of One's Own: Reply to Commentaries JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 205-213. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blechner, Mark J. T1 - A Relational Encounter with Race JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 161-179. N2 - Ferenczi (1988) described the procedure of mutual analysis, in which the patient and analyst switch roles for part of the time in the analysis. This procedure allowed patients in stalled analyses to make progress and enabled the analyst to overcome certain countertransference blocks but was ultimately rejected for certain drawbacks. Working in the countertransference is a modification of mutual analysis that retains some of its benefits and eliminates some of its drawbacks. In such work, the psychoanalyst's personality and psychodynamics become the center stage of the manifest content of the session the analyst avoids interpretations of the transference and, instead, elicits the patient's detailed understanding of the analyst's psychodynamics. The analyst does not, however, generally volunteer his free associations or facts about his own life. This process allows deep work with patients with a predominance of projective identification. Working in the countertransference may be preferred in cases of severe psychopathology to other procedures for its lessening of the frequency, severity, and persistence of transference psychoses. The procedure is also a useful supplement to transference analysis with neurotic patients, for whom it can break through blocks caused by anxiety-laden issues or countertransference impediments. Y1 - 1992 ER -