Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

Buechler, Sandra

doi:10.4324/9780203894224

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“…Here, the child's fear of the parent who is supposed to comfort him during times of distress may result in the over reliance on fantasy to cope with and escape the kind of frightening and painful interaction that the parent's unresolved trauma inflicts on the child. Fantasy here becomes more insular and unmediated by external, real interactions as it is used primarily for defensive purposes-fantasy becomes a buffer from the real world as opposed to the kind of fantasy that is shaped and changed by ongoing interpersonal experiences (Buechler, 2008;Slochower, 2006).…”

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Disorganized attachment and the use of fantasy: An interpersonal/developmental perspective.

Bonovitz¹

2012

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The author examines the developmental underpinnings of imagination and explicates the process by which the child's fantasy life becomes weakly connected to reality. Using theories of attachment and mentalization, the author argues that the repeated experience of severe and abrupt disconnection from the parent as a result of her unpredictable and frightening behavior may interfere with the development of the child's fantasy life. Two likely outcomes are put forth as a result of this sudden disconnection. The first outcome is one in which the child retreats into a fantastical cocoon that is divorced from the interpersonal world around him. In the second outcome, the patient's mental life is bereft of imagination and fantasy such that rationality, logic, and concreteness contribute to an affectively impoverished inner life devoid of novelty and surprise. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate these developmental outcomes as well as an extended adult case that highlights the developmental origins of the patient's private fantasy life and the therapist's attempt to facilitate its linkage with the interpersonal sphere of experience.

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Section: Interpersonalizing Fantasies and The Case Of Barrymentioning

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Disorganized attachment and the use of fantasy: An interpersonal/developmental perspective.

Bonovitz¹

2012

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…I have written about these as two of the values the analyst must embody (see Buechler, 2004Buechler, , 2008. This book also manifests the value that the truth is inherently worth pursuing.…”

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“…I have explored my own belief that in treatment the analyst's struggle to (re)gain emotional balance in the presence oftbe patient is a vital component of the work (Buechler, 2008). By being there, each participant provides a necessary backdrop for the other's self-exploration and emotional realignment.…”

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Confronting Atrocity

Buechler¹

2011

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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“…To see is, in this sense, to categorize. Elsewhere, I have written of the treatment process as similar to the use of metaphors in poetry, where the task is to make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange (Buechler, 2008). We have to be able to see commonalities between two very different experiences (making the strange familiar).…”

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