Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2136441
S. Richman
A brutal war in Ukraine brings the author back to the beginning of her life as a hidden child during the Second World War in Ukrainian territory under Soviet and Nazi occupation. She examines the long-term effects of war trauma on her life and her choices, and analyzes how the experience shaped her identity, her character, and her professional aspirations as a psychoanalyst and artist. With words and brush strokes she addresses a series of current crises that can be retraumatizing for survivors, namely, an assault on American democracy, a perilous pandemic, and vicious war crimes in Ukraine. These catastrophes are depicted in four oil paintings which capture the terror of war through juxtaposition of past and present images. Artistic self-expression allows for the working through of traumatic experience; In that respect, art functions as a type of reenactment which offers opportunities for mourning and repair.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2022.2097525
Allison Katz
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2097514
Ofrit Shapira-Berman
Should the analyst do anything else besides interpret? What constitutes an act within the analytic setting? And what signifies an act as analytic? The author reviews previous contributions to this literature, putting forward the idea that the analyst’s act is never isolated from the context of the analysis and the whole of the transference-countertransference relationship. Yet, under certain circumstances, it is not interpretation or the understanding of something that facilitates the transformation, but the experiencing of something that the analyst does. Through the careful 10 examination of previous conceptualizations (enactment, interpretive act), the author proposes that the analyst’s transformative act is a conscious-spontaneous act, not a reenactment of past. This idea will be discussed in light of the idea of playing and some recent thinking concerning ontological psychoanalysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2097519
Matt Aibel
The author discusses a pair of articles exploring non-interpretative aspects of contemporary psychoanalytic work, Ofra Shapira-Berman’s “When Should We Not Interpret: The Analyst’s Transformative Act as a Vital Contribution to the Patient’s Sense of Being Real and Alive” and Bnaya Amid and Eytan Bachar’s “At-one-ment: Beyond Transference and Countertransference.” Aibel notes that these authors join a number of contemporary analysts exploring and codifying a shift in thinking about therapeutic action, which Ogden has described as a move from the epistemological to the ontological, from knowledge and understanding to experiencing and becoming. Among analysts of multiple theoretical orientations, a process “allowing the patient the experience of creatively discovering meaning for himself, and in that state of being, becoming more fully alive” today takes precedence over sharing insight. Abdicating a stance of knowledge about the unconscious in favor of co-creating moments of affective meeting is seen as central to facilitating clinical growth.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2022.2097522
Bárbara Ortúzar, Steven Kuchuck
In June, 2018, along with several of her colleagues from Chile, Barbara Ortuzar sat down for an interview with Lewis (Lew) Aron at the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) conference in New York City. What follows is a transcribed account of that lively discussion. Following the interview, Steven Kuchuck was asked by Ortuzar and her colleagues to help with this project, particularly with regard to the translation, writing, and certain theoretical and biographical questions that arose in reviewing the recording and transcription. As it turned out, this would be the last conference that Lew would be able to attend, and as far as we know, the last interview he could grant. Lew’s long battle with cancer came to an end just 8 months after the conversation that follows below.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2097510
A. Eig
The belligerent patient poses a challenge to psychoanalysts. In working with an aggressive young man, I describe how I use rough-and-tumble play to meet his verbal assaults, downregulate his emotions, and create space for mentalization. Directing and redirecting his hostility led to new relational possibilities and his enhanced capacity for self-reflection. I discuss the implications for the use of rough-and-tumble play with certain patients to develop mutuality, deepen interpretive work, and enhance their reflective functioning.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2097516
Bnaya Amid, E. Bachar
Through the inscrutable state of at-one-ment, one (be)comes to know the other from the inside, to experience the other’s experience as one’s own, rather than like one’s own. In the clinical setting, this occurrence is valuable in and of itself, even when it is not acknowledged or understood by the analytic pair, as it allows the enigmatic possibility of communicating the incommunicable that lies beyond words and relations, echoing the unique embryonic form of being and communicating. Such clinical occurrences invite us to reconsider the common formulations of transference and countertransference and move beyond their inherent notion of twoness.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2097533
P. Shabad
I am pleased to have this opportunity to review Daniel Shaw’s book Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear . In this book, Shaw follows up on the themes that he explored in his first volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation . Here, Shaw extends his thinking on the sources of traumatic narcissism, and focuses more specifically on relational processes in clinical work with individuals who grew up with traumatically narcissistic parents.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806X.2022.2097512
Peter Kaufmann
This discussion of Andrew Eig’s “Self-Defeating Aggression and the Need for Rough and Tumble Play in Adult Analysis” (playfully) focuses on the clinical process that occurs between Eig and his patient, both appreciating how Eig contains Ezra’s aggression and highlighting how he fosters Ezra’s sense of capability. It also expands Eig’s explicit theory of therapeutic action in the case, bringing in Mitchell’s ideas about bootstrapping and repetitive enactment or impasse, as well as Kohut’s and Winnicott’s ideas about the possible developmental and adaptive aspects of aggressive states. Finally, it builds on Eig’s implication that shared aggression can be a vitalizing feature in treatment by introducing the concept of joining with the patient’s aggression, using basketball as a metaphor for this joining.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/1551806x.2022.2097508
J. Slochower
How can we mourn the losses of 2020 and 2021 when, in 2022, these losses are ongoing? Is it possible for us to help our patients with something that continues to disrupt the ordinary for us all? This essay explores the impact of existential crises on our patients’ and our own ability to mourn within and outside analytic space.
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