From the Couch: Trauma and Recovery after Analytic Impingement

Abstract

Our tales of trauma revolve around a serious head injury my analyst suffered, the disruption of his life, our analytic relationship, my treatment, and, finally, the recovery process in which we were both intimately engaged. This is a story about values in psychoanalysis and their intimate implication in the conduct of a successful analysis. It is also a story about trauma and the forever ongoing process of recovery. How we weathered our extraordinary circumstance can illuminate themes that are important for analytic work in situations of the analyst's injury or illness and for analytic work more broadly.