Psychoanalysis: The Magic and The Lie Diary of a Five Day A Week Analysis by Esther Altshul Helfgott, Ph.D. |
This page was last updated on: May 21, 2006
Friday November 1, 1991 He doesn't say: Hi, how are you, it's been awhile, drop dead. He just hands me the damn bill with his delicate little hands/the perfectly manicured nails/passes it between us as the Jewish bridegroom raised above the crowd in his wedding chair hands the handkerchief to his bride. The problem with psychoanalysis is that it pretends to be something other than a business ...the analyst's counter transference is not only part and parcel of the analytic relationship, but it is part of the patient's personality (Sander M.Abend, Counter transference and Psychoanalytic Technique," LV111, 1989, pp. 374 - 395, p. 378) You mean the analysand absorb's tha analyst's personality. It works both ways. In addition, the analytic relationship itself has a personality which develops over time and develops into a personality (with two - perhaps four - components) all its own. First Intensive Year Notes* I would like to suggest that there needs to be an alternative option for students to discuss the material on their own terms - how ideas presented in the literature or lecture impact their work in the clinical setting or the academic -- artistic or personal. We need to be able to talk about how what we're learning about psychoanalytic theory impacts our lives as women; how male-defined ideas influence male therapists' work with women and with men. How it influences women therapists' work with women and with men. How all what we hear/read molds the way we think about ourselves and others. How we think about our work on the page, the canvas or in the office. There needs to be a women's group and a men's group too if they want it. Maybe in this group it will even be possible to have a women's/men's group ... *Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study Primary Source: History of the Development of Psychoanalysis in Seattle, Washington, Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study File, author's archives copyright 1991, 2006 Esther Altshul Helfgott posted May 20, 2006 |
