Psychoanalysis Self and Context最新文献

{"title":"Let the patients teach you what they need: Richard Geist in conversation with Diana Lidofsky on his journey in Self Psychology – and getting from there to here","authors":"R. Geist, Diana Lidofsky","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2023.2154494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2023.2154494","url":null,"abstract":"Many years ago, knowing nothing about Self Psychology, I attended my first Self Psychology conference at the behest of a friend. I didn’t understand much of the vocabulary, but I knew that I had come upon a way of understanding human psychological life that could explain much of what I—a relatively new therapist—was experiencing with my patients, but had no theory for. I knew that I needed to learn more, and I soon discovered that Dick Geist was the person to see. A gifted and empathic teacher, Dick provided the best possible introduction to Self Psychology, and I will always be grateful. After all these years, I was delighted to interview my colleague and friend.","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"20 1","pages":"92 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81722826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rothko, the Rolling Stones, and Matisse: Grounding in a time of uncertainty","authors":"J. Paddock","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2155168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2155168","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In surfing the waves of COVID-19 and the current socio-political culture of alarm, uncertainty, and anxiety, I describe how exploring works by Mark Rothko, the Rolling Stones, and Henri Matisse helped me find grounded experiential footing during the pandemic. Rothko’s multiform and later paintings encouraged exploration of the soul, experiences of the ineffable, of life-and-death. In contrast, the Rolling Stones inspired me to feel my heart, my beat, my connectedness to rhythm and knowledge that presence rests on interpersonal connection. Finally, as seen in The Red Studio, Matisse and his use of color re-vivify the experience of living, and provided a roadmap back to optimism.","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"1 1","pages":"119 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84221182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Elizabeth Carr’s Story by Carol Levin: The Emergence of a Modern Self Psychologist","authors":"Carole Levin","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2023.2154975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2023.2154975","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"69 1","pages":"109 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86161389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pockets of resilience: Musician-patients’ creative responses to Covid-19","authors":"Heather Ferguson","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2153849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2153849","url":null,"abstract":"David Byrne’s electrifying show American Utopia was the last live performance I attended before the Covid-19 lockdown in NYC. Electrified by Byrne’s Brazilian-inspired marching band, I danced in the aisle and sang along to my favorite Talking Heads tunes. I was joyfully teleported to drumming in percussion ensembles and rock bands of my youth. I cherished my first Talking Heads Album, Remain in Light, a gift for my 16 birthday and an inspiration to find my groove. When Covid-19 perturbed our natural rhythms and going on being, social inequities were thrust on center stage. This disruption created opportunities for social reckoning. In dialogue with patients, we wondered how our social and psychic worlds would be altered irrevocably, creating opportunities for revitalization, reordering, or returning to the status quo. Like many psychotherapists, I was fortunate to continue work via telehealth. As I moved my practice to digital platforms, my musical listening perspective became even more pertinent. As the two-dimensional aspect of video conferencing eclipsed my embodied presence, I focused intensely on the vitality affects communicated via my patients’ verbalizations (e.g., tone, rhythmicity, and prosody) and gestures, the nonverbal information that enlarged my empathic understanding, my affective resonance, with my patients’ felt experiences. To augment embodied communication, I mimicked or mimed my patients’ subtle movements to expand our bi-directional communication. Sometimes this cross-modal “matching” remained implicit, and, at other times, we explored the meaning of our musical give and take—our shared choreography. Bette, an actress-patient, for example, spontaneously shimmied (shaking her shoulders in a dance) in anticipation of a first-time social event. Without thinking, I mimicked her movement, and we spontaneously engaged in a liberated therapy dance, miming, and mirroring each other’s movements with our improvisational flair (Ferguson, 2020; Knoblauch, 2011; Nebbiosi, 2016). We saw each other and ourselves over zoom and laughed at our absurdity—the absurdity of it all. There was embodied freedom, a shared relief that something shifted after a traumatic period as we exhaled deeply. I noted my embodied pull toward aliveness—an antidote to the tug of deadness in my history—my proclivity to reach for enlivened experience, generally, and a desire to add buoyancy and life to the (at times) flattened and static zoom experience. For patients in the performing arts—musicians, dancers, and actors who rely on in-person engagement—their creative lives were overturned, dramatically altered, or ceased to exist","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"20 1","pages":"115 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83853588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emotional issues of trying to win when feeling like a loser: Commentary on Dr. Caprilli’s “The psychological impact of a toxic father on his son”","authors":"Michael Reison","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2154776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2154776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"21 1","pages":"40 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77720993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How creating art sustained me during the pandemic","authors":"K. M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2157419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2157419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I describe how my painting practice restored and sustained a more coherent and vitalized sense of self during the isolation, loneliness and sense of unrealness, dislocation, and lost world order brought about by Covid. I describe how the intersubjective and physical process of painting, and the nonverbal, embodied experience of creating art re-situated me in a world that felt real and allowed me to know and reflect on emotional experiences not available verbally until represented in visual, concrete form. I present a brief clinical example to illustrate how my artistic practice during Covid decisively informed an appreciation of the importance of a co-constructed selfobject experience that recognized how essential a patient’s own affirmed creativity was for enhancing her sense of vitality, agency, and possibility of positive change.","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"1 1","pages":"129 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89786470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How art got us through the pandemic: Five therapists respond","authors":"D. Shaddock","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2154070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2154070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"1 1","pages":"114 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89757350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Becoming an analyst and the wisdom of simply being a friend","authors":"Elaina A. Vasserman-Stokes","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2159963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2159963","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I aim to explore how an expansion in my sense of self resulting from explorations of meanings within a perceived transgression allowed for a long overdue expansion within my patient and fostered a development in our ability to reach and sustain an ever-deepening empathic connection. The primary thesis of this paper is that expansion within the analyst, though often unwelcome and painfully difficult, can illuminate greater complexity and radically redefine the idea of self and security in connection. Specifically, I focus on the transition between the false and the authentic self and ways in which that transition then enters clinical work. I also highlight the importance of continuing to focus on being present with the person before us, rather than minding the experience of intersubjectivity via theoretic constructions. I share relevant personal experiences and argue that a shift toward a more authentic self enhances the mutual and co-occurring process of expansion within a clinical dyad.","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"23 1","pages":"54 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89162733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Walking dogs in Santa Monica and other pathways to dynamic systems: Jeffrey and Gabriel Trop in conversation with Sarah Mendelsohn","authors":"Sarah Mendelsohn, J. Trop, Gabriel Trop","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2023.2154993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2023.2154993","url":null,"abstract":"At the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology conference in 2019, I attended a plenary, A Dynamic View of Self hood, Affect and Political Context. It was a dynamite panel chaired by Peter Maduro with presenters Gita Zarnegar, and Jeffrey and Gabriel Trop. The material stayed with me. So did my curiosity about this father and son duo. I was familiar with Jeffrey’s earlier collaboration with Atwood et al. (1989) but not yet with Gabriel’s work. I promptly read their co-authored paper, Self Psychology and the Concept of the Nuclear Self: A Dynamic Systems Perspective (J. Trop & Trop, 2018). Recently, I had the great privilege of speaking with them together. We began by talking about how they came to collaborate.","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"21 1","pages":"79 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72859281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How change can happen in complex systems. Discussion of Caprilli’s case description","authors":"G. Prinz","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2022.2154775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2154775","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the report on a therapy with an 8-year-old boy provided by Simona Caprilli. A complex systems theory perspective is adopted to explore certain developments and characteristics of this case history. The therapist’s impact on the patient’s social system of reference is examined, with particular attention to her mode of procedure, attitudes, and commitments. This paper identifies Caprilli´s consistent contextualization as a key aspect of her empathic approach. In addition, special attention is paid to the feelings that arise in the intersubjective field and to the structure of the therapeutic relationship. The discussion of the case study illustrates that the emergence of new organizational patterns in the system opens up new possibilities and expands the scope in the therapeutic relationship. This emphasizes the interconnectedness of systemic and individual levels and highlights the significance of shared emotions for this change process. The clinical example is used to demonstrate how psychoanalytic change processes can also be understood as systemic changes, not just personal developments.","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"120 1","pages":"45 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89223256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}