Representation and the Intrapsychic: Cartesian Barriers to Empathic Contact

Changing Together: A Response to James L. Fosshage and Sandra G. Hershberg

“…" (p. 476). What happened between us led to a more complexified and complexifying understanding of our experience in which we became keenly aware of our interpenetrating personal worlds of experience (Sucharov, 2002). This whole process not only changed her sense of self and others, it also contributed to changing my interactions with her and with my other patients as well.…”

The Poverty in Psychoanalysis: ‘Poverty’ of Psychoanalysis?

“…Grosskurth (2001) in a paper examining psychoanalytic history particularly in the life of Melanie Klein looks at her family circumstances in which she was 'close to poverty', in repeated loss and in a loveless marriage. Sucharov (2002) also makes references to a patient in the context of 'poverty of his emotional life' when the patient says, 'I have an aversion to affect; my own and that of others' (p. 702). Moraitis (2003), who discusses the psychoanalysis of biographies and fiction, shows how the 'theme of poverty' was a central preoccupation of the Russian writer Tolstoy.…”

Narcissus Revisited: A Link Between Mirroring and Twinship Selfobject Experiences—A Discussion of Nancy VanDerHeide's, “A Dynamic Systems View of the Transformational Process of Mirroring”

“…The phenomenon of emergence is defined as "a new behavior or interaction which evolves from the interaction of a number of elements none of which has a central role or is necessarily predictable by examining any one of the numerous individual components of the system which comprise the interchange" (p. 436). This property presupposes the following characteristics about systems (Coburn, 2002;Galatzer-Levy, 2002;Sucharov, 2002;Lichtenberg, 2008): 1. Dynamic systems are self-organizing and self-stabilizing.…”