The Playground of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Sanville, Jean

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“…(She enjoyed playing with her mother before her mother became so mentally ill). A child who cannot play does not communicate his feelings or intentions, and suffers a failure of relatedness (Sanville, 1994).…”

Section: How I Became a Telepathic Tuning Forkmentioning

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The Relationship of Mental Telepathy to Trauma and Dissociation

Farber¹

2018

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When we regard telepathy as a weird new-age concept, we can easily lose sight of how psychoanalysis seems to so many patients to be a form of mind-reading. The paranormal has always been controversial in psychoanalysis, and Freud’s deep interest in it has been marginalized. Several studies have found that a person with a history of trauma and dissociation will be more likely to report a high frequency of psychic or paranormal experience than a person who does not have such a history (Carpenter, 2015). The reasons for this will be explored, and a case demonstrating telepathic communication between a very dissociated, traumatized patient and her therapist will be presented. Using an information-processing model, I will illustrate how the patient’s subsymbolic information became converted to the verbal symbolic by means of my use of evoked images.

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Section: How I Became a Telepathic Tuning Forkmentioning

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The Relationship of Mental Telepathy to Trauma and Dissociation

Farber¹

2018

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“…The transference thus creates an intermediate region between illness and real life through which the transition from the one to the other is made" (154; my emphasis). Transference is a playground on or within which the emergence of unconscious fantasy is made possible and encouraged (Steingart 1983;Sanville 1991;Coen 2005). When the patient can begin to tolerate the encounter with aspects of himself that he would rather split off , this makes interpretation of unconscious content possible as a therapeutic technique.…”

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There Is No Such Thing as Transference

Russell¹

2014

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“…But the patient still has to do it. The analyst's role is to provide the space in which the patient can play with different ways of being; in our example that would mean deploying positive feelings to master pain (Sanville, 2001; Winnicott, 1971). This process is “play” in the sense of the creative, imaginative play of childhood in which children try on different roles and make up the game as they go along.…”

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The transcendent experience of the other: Futurity in empathy.

Summers¹

2012

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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The recognition of the other as subject has achieved a prominent place in contemporary psychoanalysis on both sides of the analytic relationship, but this development has tended to focus on the recognition of who the other is and has been. It is the purpose of this article to add the future, the transcendent experience of the other, to the recognition of the other in the analytic dyad. Heidegger's concept of the "ek-static" will be used to elucidate the human subject as moving beyond him or herself in a continual process of becoming. The result of the peeling back of defenses is not a homunculus waiting to be unearthed, but affective dispositions and desires that have yet to become organized modes of being. It is the purpose of the analytic process to bring this potential to fruition. For this process to take place, the therapist must have a concept of not only who the patient is, but also who she or he is not but may be. It will be suggested that dispositional affects, desires, and passions that emerge when defenses give way provide clues to unformed possibilities that can become ways of being if perceived as such by the therapist. A clinical strategy is proposed in which the analytic space becomes a negative capability for the formation of new ways of being and relating. This idea is illustrated with a clinical example in which the patient's compliant pattern was transcended.

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The Playground of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Cited by 5 publications

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The Relationship of Mental Telepathy to Trauma and Dissociation

The Relationship of Mental Telepathy to Trauma and Dissociation

There Is No Such Thing as Transference

The transcendent experience of the other: Futurity in empathy.

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