Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2203033
Viktoria Zhyrova
ABSTRACT In this short essay, Zhyrova describes life as a psychologist under Russian invasion. She includes both the value of connection and the inescapable sorrow of loss, and the eventual need to move abroad. This like everything else in the current scenario is an impossible contradiction, her exile bringing both safety and further estrangement from her home and loved ones.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2205773
A. Gladkaya
ABSTRACT A Ukrainian therapist who, at the start of the war, flees with her young family, first to Western Ukraine, then to Italy, recounts her complex emotional and professional experiences along the way. The author describes fear, loss, abandonment, survivor guilt, surprising resilience, resourcefulness, tears, and joy.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2205781
Gaea Logan, Darren Haber
ABSTRACT In this reflective, compassionate interview, Gaea Logan discusses her work in supporting Ukrainian therapists amidst unthinkably traumatic circumstances, our need to stay aware of the long-term psychological impact of Putin’s invasion, and the importance of our continued support of our Ukrainian colleagues now, no matter how small the gesture. Logan contextualizes her view of the current onslaught within a career of recognizing and mitigating traumatic suffering around the world, motivated in part by her own family’s history of surviving Nazi violence. She also addresses today’s need for (and her efforts to co-create) a global, multi-disciplinary psychoanalytic community.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2199787
Heather B. MacIntosh
ABSTRACT We are always practicing in a time of threat and loss, but what changes is the nature of the threat and the loss: is it shared or not shared, known, or not known, disclosed by force or disclosed by choice? This paper explores the themes of trust and belonging as the essence of the psychoanalytic frame and the parallel processes of how our own traumas, as psychoanalysts, warp and weave through our relationships with our patients over time. The pandemic has gifted us with a perfect storm of shared traumas and created new opportunities for navigating, negotiating, rupturing and repairing, and healing, as the frame was forcefully bent, broken, and rebuilt in the context of this global crisis. The pandemic has emphasized the importance of lifting the veil of secrecy and bringing those of us who live these complex lives of service, as both healers and suffering strangers, into community and dialogue. To illustrate these themes, this paper explores the parallels between “Jennifer” my patient of 14 years and my own journey through life and analysis.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2185246
B. Beebe
The microanalysis of mother-infant face-to-face communication has important implications for nonverbal communication in adult romantic partners and couples therapy. I am delighted that David Shaddock has taken up the challenge of relating these 2 fields. David emphasizes the dyadic co-creation of patterns of relating. Each person is con-tributing to the emerging interactive process. This is one of the most important insights from infant research. For example, in the mother-infant “chase and dodge” pattern (Beebe & Lachmann, 2002; Beebe & Stern, 1977), we identified a bi-directional interactive process. As the mother loomed into the infant’s face, the infant turned his head away. This was a quasi-simultaneous process, in which the mother’s loom started just a small fraction of a second before the infant’s head turn. But then, as the infant was turning away, the mother began to “chase,” that is, to move in the direction in which the infant was turning away. This was also a quasi-simultaneous process. This pattern might repeat until the infant tucked his head down, and moved his head to the other side, without looking at his mother. Then the whole process might repeat on the other side. And so on. As a couples therapist, I might see something similar as I watch a couple sitting in front of me. As one individual in the couple turns her head toward her partner, the partner just slightly turns his head away; but as he turns slightly away, she moves her head a tiny bit further toward her partner. This example illustrates a chase and dodge pattern in the couple in which the female partner is “chasing” and the male partner is “dodging.” Together they co-create this pattern. David also emphasizes the dyadic systems view in which self-regulation and interactive regulation are co-constituted (Beebe et al., 2016). How each individual regulates her own attention, orientation, affect, touch and physiological arousal—affects how she responds to her partner and how her partner responds to her. And vice versa, the nature of the interactive regulation affects each partner’s pattern of self-regulation.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2177296
D. Shaddock
ABSTRACT This paper extends concepts from infant research and intersubjective systems theory to couples treatment. Infant research views human development as taking place in a two-person developmental system, in which the caregiver and the infant coordinate to foster infant development. Couples treatment is by analogy seen as a three person developmental system. Systems based psychoanalytic theories are applied to the couple/therapist system, particularly in regard to the oscillation between hoped-for selfobject experiences and feared repetitive experiences. Infant research has shown that the origin of our sense of self, others, and self-with-others emerges from the ongoing, largely nonverbal, dialogue between infants and caregivers. The attachment security from infancy is reorganized by adult relationships. The therapist looks to help partners (1) repair disruptions when they occur, (2) recognize each other and in turn feel recognized and (3) have greater ability to reflect or mentalize on their partner’s and their own mental states. The “back and forth weave” of the therapist’s attention is shown to have particular salience in fostering development. The paper concludes with a case example of how a single look or expression disrupts the couples enjoyment of an anticipated day.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2183209
A. Nielsen
ABSTRACT Few of us are good at asking for what we want or at listening to criticism. In this paper, I explore the many reasons why, emphasizing self psychological explanations, while also noting contributions from marital research, systems theory, and other psychoanalytic schools of thought. After a brief introduction, I provide an experience-near discussion of why people have trouble asking for what they want, the dysfunctional ways they try to avoid making themselves vulnerable, and guidelines for more effective self-assertion. I then discuss the related challenges of listening to other people’s criticism, common pitfalls encountered, and mistakes made, and again offer practical suggestions for helping patients to do better. Along the way, I offer case vignettes to illustrate my thinking. Though not usually described in such everyday language, these speaking and listening challenges are central to our daily work as couple therapists.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2176857
S. Stern
ABSTRACT In this paper the author expands his thinking about “airless worlds” in individual therapy to work with couples. Living in an airless world refers to a process of internalizing negating messages from parents to their children such that the adult child continues to view and treat themselves in more or less the same negating ways that their parents had. Individuals suffering from the syndrome tend not to have separated from their internalized parents sufficiently to be able to develop their own senses of self, agency, and reality and therefore tend, transferentially, to create a similar kind of unconscious bondage with their adult partners. When adult partners co-create a communicative system wherein each unconsciously cedes to the other the power to define their experience of themselves, an airless world has been created in their relationship. An unconscious dependency on, and negation of, the other renders constructive intersubjective dialogue virtually impossible (i.e. dialogue that takes into account both parties’ subjectivities). By way of focusing on his work with one couple whose capacity for competent constructive dialogue had broken down completely over many years, the author demonstrates both the operation of airless world dynamics in couples and his approach to introducing “psychic air” into their airless marital systems. Central to his approach is an expansion of the idea of therapeutic empathy to include “empathy with the needs of the system.”
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2184821
Carla M. Leone
ABSTRACT The question of whether to see partners individually as part of couple therapy has been hotly debated in couple therapy circles for decades, but has rarely been addressed in the psychoanalytic couple therapy literature, especially the self psychology literature. In an effort to fill that gap, this paper briefly reviews the reasons many couple therapists have traditionally avoided such sessions, encourages a reevaluation of those concerns, and suggests ways to minimize or reduce the risks. It argues strongly that in some cases, individual sessions can be an attuned, empathic response to the needs of one or both partners and the most effective way to help improve the relationship between them. Rather than hard-and-fast rules, the paper advocates that couple therapists use their empathic understanding of each partner’s history and inner world, the couple’s dynamics, and their own needs and motivations, to make attuned, empathically responsive decisions based on each partner and couple’s particular needs at a particular time. Clinical vignettes are used throughout the paper to illustrate key points.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2187056
Mohammad Dehganpour, Carla M. Leone
ABSTRACT Conflicts between partners over their relationships with each other’s families of origin (in-laws) are very common and often very painful and damaging, yet have rarely been discussed in the psychoanalytic couple therapy literature. Becoming a couple typically involves significant reorganization of each partner’s relationships with their own families of origin, along with the development of new relationships with members of their partner’s family of origin, a process that can go painfully awry for reasons discussed in the paper.Self psychology and attachment theory can help couple therapists help couples better understand and move through this often difficult process in a way that reduces conflict, strengthens the new couple’s relationship and hopefully their in-law relationships and minimizes pain and damage to all involved. In some cases this is best accomplished by including other family members involved in the conflict in the treatment, as occurred in the case example. However, the couple therapist can function helpfully as an “intergenerational broker” even if only the couple is seen. A detailed case example is used to illustrate key points.
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