Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States

ISBN-13: 9780415241656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 200 str.

JudithL Mitrani

Opis

Many people come to analysis appearing quite ordinary on the surface. However, once below that surface, we often come into contact with something quite unexpected: extra-ordinary protections, created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. Judith Mitrani investigates the development and the function of these protections. She weaves detailed clinical observations with a variety of analytical concepts, and her original notions provide tools for understanding the infantile transference/countertransference and for the refinement of our technique with primitive mental states.

Spis treści

Grotstein, Foreword. Transference Interpretation and the Emergence of Infantile Dependency in Ordinary People. Extra-Ordinary Protections: The Evolution of the Theory of Adhesive Identification. Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections. The Flying Dutchman and the Search for the Containing Object. Chloe: From Pre-Conception to After Birth. Unbearable Ecstasy, Reverence and Awe and the Perpetuation of an Aesthetic Conflict. Never Before and Never Again. Changes of Mind: Working Things Through in the Countertransference. Concluding Thoughts.

O autorze

Judith L. Mitrani is a Training and Supervising analyst at both The Psychoanalytic Center of California and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. She is author of A Framework for the Imaginery: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being and the co-editor (with Dr. Theodore Mitrani) of the book Encounters with Autisitic States: A Memorial Tribute to Frances Tustin.