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Heart Melts Forward: Emmanuel Ghent (1925–2003)

  • This paper uses concepts from infant research to describe the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Louis Sander's model of bidirectional mutual influence implies that agency is a property of all living things. Studying sleep – wake cycles, Sander concludes that these are mutually regulated the infant uses his state to guide his pole of the bidirectionality. It is in the >moment of meeting,< when the caregiving surround acknowledges the infant state in a way that >fits,< lies the beginnings of the infant's sense of agency. I suggest that one can make links between how a sense of agency develops in infancy and how this concept can be used in psychoanalytic treatment. Specifically, a bidirectional stance, a continuous attention to affect and state, and a systematic inquiry into how the patient is experiencing the analytic activity foster a sense of agency. Clinical examples illustrate the thesis.

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Author:Judith Rustin
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 043-062.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1997
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Rustin_J_1997
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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