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A Framework for the Imaginary is an extraordinary depiction of one
analyst's efforts to receive and respond to the vivid impressions
of her patients' raw and sometimes even "unmentalized" experiences
as they are highlighted in the transference-countertransference
connection. Dr. Mitrani attempts to feel, suffer, mentally
transform, and, finally, verbally construct - for and with the
patient - possible meanings for those immediate versions of life's
earliest experiences as they are reenacted in the therapeutic
relationship. She uses insights from this therapeutic work to
contribute to the metapsychology of British and American object
relations as well as to the psychoanalytic theory of technique. In
these eleven essays, four of which are printed here for the first
time, Dr. Mitrani masterfully integrates the work of Klein,
Winnicott, Bion, and Tustin as she leads us on an expedition
through primitive emotional territories. She clears the way toward
detecting and understanding the survival function of certain
pathological maneuvers deployed by patients when confronted by
unthinkable anxieties. In her vivid accounts of numerous clinical
cases, she provides and demonstrates the tools needed to effect a
transformation of unmentalized experiences within the context of
the therapeutic relationship. Throughout her writings, she warns of
some of the pitfalls we may encounter along the way.
Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which
Tustin's work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into
the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the
'proto-mental' area of the psyche-soma. Through detailed clinical
contributions of several of her exponents worldwide, this book
demonstrates how her ideas -- rooted in decades of work with
children on the autistic spectrum -- have influenced and are being
expanded, extended and applied to the treatment of ordinary
patients from early childhood through adulthood. The contributors
to this volume represent a selection of the contemporary thinking
that organically grew out of Tustin's discoveries, and show that
Tustin's model has added new dimensions to the fields of infant
observation, family therapy and neuro-psychology. Each chapter is
augmented by demonstrable clinical experience. Frances Tustin Today
is a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,
educators and parents who are interested in learning more about
this uniquely independent clinical observer's findings and their
impact upon the treatment of autistic states in children,
adolescents and adults by contemporary workers in the field of
mental health. Judith L. Mitrani, and Theodore Mitrani, are Fellows
of The International Psycho-Analytical Association, Training and
Supervising Psychoanalysts at The Psychoanalytic Center of
California in Los Angeles. They are founding members of the Board
of Trustees of The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust, and authors,
editors, translators and teachers in the private practice of
psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy with Adults and Children
in Los Angeles, California.
This volume consists of a series of essays inspired by Freud's
paper on Jensen's novel Gradiva - "she who steps along." In the
story a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions
but is able to unravel the mysteries of his emotional life and mind
with the aid of a woman who does not challenge these delusions, but
rather "steps along" with Hanold, gradually helping him to
disentangle truth from fantasy, through what Freud called "cure by
love". Gradiva, originally felt to be the source of Hanold's
malady, eventually becomes the agent of its resolution and of his
return to health. This extraordinary tale formed the basis for the
author's concept of "taking the transference". Through clinical
vignettes, various aspects of psychoanalytic technique - useful
from the first encounter between patient and analyst and throughout
the process of the development of mind to termination - are
illustrated in detail.
An extraordinary depiction of one analyst's efforts to receive and
respond to the vivid impressions of her patients raw and sometimes
even unmentalized experiences as they are highlighted in the
transference-countertransference connection. Mitrani attempts to
feel, suffer, mentally transform, and, finally, verbally construct
for and with the patient possible meanings for those immediate
versions of lifes earliest experiences as they are re-enacted in
the therapeutic relationship. She uses insights from this
therapeutic work to contribute to the metapsychology of British and
American object relations as well as to the psychoanalytic theory
of technique. In these eleven essays, Dr Mitrani masterfully
integrates the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bion and Tustin as she
leads us on an expedition through primitive emotional territories.
She clears the way toward detecting and understanding the survival
function of certain pathological manoeuvres deployed by patients
when confronted by unthinkable anxieties. In her vivid accounts of
numerous clinical cases, she provides and demonstrates the tools
needed to effect a transformation of unmentalized experiences
within the context of the therapeutic relationship.
'Judith Mitrani's latest work beautifully illuminates some incompletely explored areas of psychoanalytic thinking... Throughout this work we become impressed with the presence of a versatile and innovative observer, thinker, clinician, and integrator with an unusual range of knowledge. Dr Mitrani's is a new, valuable, and most welcome voice in psychoanalysis.' - James S. Grotstein, North American Vice President, International Psychoanalytical Association
This volume consists of a series of essays, initially inspired over
thirty years ago by Freud's paper on Gradiva - she who steps along.
The bas relief on the cover of this book hangs in my consulting
room today, as it had in Freud's own, perhaps as a reminder of what
we do. In Jensen's story of Gradiva, a young archaeologist, Norbert
Hanold, suffers from delusions and is able to unravel the mysteries
of his emotional life and mind with the aid of a woman who does not
challenge these delusions, but rather 'steps along' with Hanold,
gradually helping him to disentangle truth from fantasy through
what Freud called cure by love. Gradiva, originally felt to be the
source of Hanold's malady, eventually becomes the agent of its
resolution and of his return to health. What I made of this
extraordinary tale formed the basis for my concept of 'taking the
transference.' Through clinical vignettes, various aspects of
psychoanalytic technique -- useful from the first encounter between
patient and analyst and throughout the process of the development
of mind to termination -- are illustrated in detail.These chapters
are rooted in, explicate and expand upon the theoretical tenants of
Freud, Klein, Bion and Tustin and focus on the act of observing and
'taking the transference', particularly at the infantile level.
Salient topics include the importance of listening in the beginning
of analysis with those who know little about analysis as well as
with those who know all about it; technical implications derived
from works by Klein, Bion and Tustin; analytic encounters with
adults and adolescents, a psychoanalytic take on a contemporary
film, and some ways in which psychoanalysis may lend further
meaning to neuro-scientific studies on autism.
Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which
Tustin's work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into
the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the
'proto-mental' area of the psyche-soma. Through detailed clinical
contributions of several of her exponents worldwide, this book
demonstrates how her ideas -- rooted in decades of work with
children on the autistic spectrum -- have influenced and are being
expanded, extended and applied to the treatment of ordinary
patients from early childhood through adulthood. The contributors
to this volume represent a selection of the contemporary thinking
that organically grew out of Tustin's discoveries, and show that
Tustin's model has added new dimensions to the fields of infant
observation, family therapy and neuro-psychology. Each chapter is
augmented by demonstrable clinical experience. Frances Tustin Today
is a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,
educators and parents who are interested in learning more about
this uniquely independent clinical observer's findings and their
impact upon the treatment of autistic states in children,
adolescents and adults by contemporary workers in the field of
mental health. Judith L. Mitrani, and Theodore Mitrani, are Fellows
of The International Psycho-Analytical Association, Training and
Supervising Psychoanalysts at The Psychoanalytic Center of
California in Los Angeles. They are founding members of the Board
of Trustees of The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust, and authors,
editors, translators and teachers in the private practice of
psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy with Adults and Children
in Los Angeles, California.
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