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Psychoanalysis, dissociation, and personality organization reflections on Peter Goldberg's essay

  • In this paper, I consider the feeling of interiority as it evolves within the treatment relationship. A capacity to access and sustain one's interiority reflects a sense of personal solidity within which the validity of subjective process and privacy is taken for granted. When this capacity is relatively undeveloped, individuals rely on the >other< (including the analyst) to help them contact, elaborate, or manage their affective experience. Quite paradoxically, the analyst's active investigation of dynamic or intersubjective process may obfuscate rather than clarify this core difficulty. I suggest two alternative approaches to the treatment situation that stand in some tension and yet also complement each other. One emphasizes the >active< investigation of dynamic and dyadic process, wherein the analyst works interpretively and/or around relational issues. The other is organized around the >interior< dimension of the treatment experience, emphasizing the patient's need to develop or manage her affective process in the relative absence of input from the analyst. Two clinical situations are described, the first illustrating the use of silence with a patient whose difficulties involved affect articulation, and the second involving a patient whose need for affect regulation made her highly dependent on the analyst for soothing.

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Author:Joyce Slochower
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 789-809.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1999
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Slochower_J_1999
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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