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This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading
scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity
Seminar, organized by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs
Center. Looking at creativity through a psychoanalytic lens and
very importantly, vice versa the authors examine great works ("The
Scarlet Letter," Mahler s "Eighth " and "The Miracle Worker") as
well as great artists (Van Gogh and Lennon/McCartney) for what we
might learn about the creative process itself. Deepening this
conversation are a number of clinical studies and other reflections
on the creative process in sickness and in health, so to speak. A
central theme is that of deep play, the level at which the artist
may be unconsciously playing out, on behalf of all of us, the
deepest dynamics of human emotion in order that we may leave the
encounter not only emotionally spent, but profoundly informed as
well. The central questions of this book are how do we understand
the creative process, what might psychoanalysis contribute to that
understanding, and what opens up within and for psychoanalysis by
engaging with the subject of creativity?"
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot
contain of their experience what has been traumatically
overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable falls out of social
discourse, but very often onto and into the next generation, as an
affective sensitivity or a chaotic urgency. What appears to be a
person's symptom may turn out to be a symbol in the context of this
book, a symbol of an unconscious mission to repair a parent or
avenge a humiliation assigned by the preceding generation. These
tasks may be more or less idiosyncratic to a given family,
suffering its own personal trauma, or collective in response to
societal trauma.This book addresses this heritage of trauma and
does so both from clinical and societal perspectives. It considers
first the legacy of the Holocaust, the study of which broke ground
for the new field of transmission studies; then the analysis and
enactments of trauma in more ordinary clinical practice; and
finally more recent, large-scale traumatic events within American
society. Throughout, the links between the "little histories" of
people and families and the "big history" of a society are
illuminated."
This book reports on clinical work in, and at the boundaries of,
the intermediate space between patient and therapist, perhaps the
space between reaching toward dreams and taking the transference.
Though the clinical work to be described here was influenced quite
deeply by the writing of Winnicott primarily and then of Lacan, it
is meant to stand for itself as the record of - and a set of
stories about - one therapist's experiences and learning. The
chapters that follow take up a range of clinical conditions
(hopelessness, self-destructiveness, psychosis), clinical phenomena
(regression, impasse, trauma), technical issues (interpretation,
transference, free association) and related topics (dreams,
creativity, the analytic setting). Most of this work took place at
the Austen Riggs Center, a small psychiatric hospital in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in which quite troubled patients are
offered intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy in a completely open
and voluntary therapeutic community setting.
This book is about how traumatic psychological injury is passed
down to the children and grandchildren of those who originally
experienced it and about finding the shared humanity in families,
in psychotherapy, in society, and in memories of the past that
repairs the damage people do to one another.
This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading
scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity
Seminar organised by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs
Center. Looking at creativity through a psychoanalytic lens - and
very importantly, vice versa - the authors examine great works,
such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mahler's Eighth
Symphony, and William Gibson's The Miracle Worker; as well as great
artists, such as Van Gogh and Lennon and McCartney, for what we
might learn about the creative process itself. Deepening this
conversation are a number of clinical studies and other reflections
on the creative process - in sickness and in health, so to speak. A
central theme is that of "deep play", the level at which the artist
may be unconsciously playing out, on behalf of all of us, the
deepest dynamics of human emotion in order that we may leave the
encounter not only emotionally spent, but profoundly informed as
well.
"One of the aims of this game is to reach to the child's ease and
so to his fantasy and so to his dreams. What a lovely description
of an easy interplay between two people, leading to the
communication of, even the creation of, inner life. Winnicott was a
theorist of the unnoticed obvious, as much in this statement about
his squiggle game as in his recognition of the eternal phenomenon
of transitional objects. But it is also a commonplace of clinical
psychoanalytic practice that no sooner is inner life contacted, and
a beginning link made to the external world, no sooner do both
parties realize that the behavior that seemed so idiosyncratic
actually has relational meaning, than something else happens:
transference, and taking the transference becomes the new, vital
and risky clinical problem.This book reports on clinical work in,
and at the boundaries of, the intermediate space between patient
and therapist, perhaps the space between reaching toward dreams and
taking the transference. Though the clinical work to be described
here was influenced quite deeply by the writing of Winnicott
primarily and then of Lacan, it is meant to stand for itself as the
record of--and a set of stories about--one therapist s experiences
and learning. The chapters that follow take up a range of clinical
conditions (hopelessness, self-destructiveness, psychosis),
clinical phenomena (regression, impasse, trauma), technical issues
(interpretation, transference, free association) and related topics
(dreams, creativity, the analytic setting). Most of this work took
place at the Austen Riggs Center, a small psychiatric hospital in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in which quite troubled patients are
offered intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy in a completely open
and voluntary therapeutic community setting."
'Bullets don't just travel through skin and bone. They travel
through time.' These words were tattooed onto the shoulder of a
young woman whose father was shot during "The Troubles" in Northern
Ireland. This wrenching, volatile but also binding truth is the
subject of this book. It's a truth about traumatic experiences that
happen to a family, but also to a society, and to the organizations
that link these intimate units with the larger context of history
and culture. It's also a truth about the way trauma plays out over
time, including between generations. Grounded in Erik Erikson's
"way of looking at things", the book is a journal of encounters
between clinical psychoanalysis and other disciplines, and an
inquiry into what might be learned there for both. Sometimes that
learning has to do with trauma: the way in which what can't be
emotionally contained, thought about or spoken in one part of a
system is passed along, with disorganizing, sometimes heartbreaking
consequences, to another. After a reflection on dignity, the book
examines intergenerational trauma in families, including Erikson's.
It then illustrates how trauma to organizations slips below the
threshold of awareness and yet continues to wear down its members.
The final section examines aspects of the larger society, including
radicalization, war trauma, the pandemic and cultural healing. What
emerges is the sober yet hopeful truth that what people discover by
taking their own emotional experiences seriously, though that might
markedly differ from what is accepted in the everyday world, is a
primary path toward recovery from trauma.
With contributions from Lord John Alderdice, Deniz Aribog an,
Abdulkadir Cevik, Senem B. Cevik, Coline Covington, Robi Friedman,
David Fromm, M. Gerard Fromm, Hiba Husseini, Aleksandr V.
Obolonski, Ford Rowan, Regine Scholz, Edward R. Shapiro, Vamik D.
Volkan The International Dialogue Initiative (IDI) is a private,
international, multidisciplinary group comprised of psychoanalysts,
academics, diplomats, and other professionals who bring a
psychologically informed perspective to the study and amelioration
of societal conflict. It aims to provide a reflective space to
enable an understanding of how the emotional and historical
background of hostile relations - often related to trauma - is
being experienced in the present. By doing so, antagonists can
overcome resistances to dialogue and facilitate the discovery of
peaceful solutions to intergroup problems. This book brings
together key members of the IDI to present the theory and practice
of the important work they do. At its heart, the book holds the
idea that, while traumatic experiences may happen to an individual
or a family, they also affect society and large-group identity over
long periods of time. In that way, trauma plays out between
generations and between countries. The book is divided into three
parts: theory, application, and methodology. Trauma is the key
thread running throughout and the distinguished contributors
investigate healing, dehumanisation, memory, the pandemic, war,
terrorism, identity, culture, the law, justice, and religion, among
many other fascinating topics. The authors bring in case studies
from all over the world, including the United States, Northern
Ireland, Russia, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, and Palestine. To
make sense of these, they draw on a wide range of approaches: group
relations theory, group analytic theory, psychoanalysis,
large-group psychology, psychodynamic theory, psychology,
economics, sociology, political science, history, journalism, and
the law, to name but a few. This must-read book brings theory to
vivid life and brings hope that our fractured world can learn to
heal.
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis
from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's
development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated
from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range
of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms
and signs, Freud noted in 1895, "join in the conversation" by
taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is
the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast
field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this
collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic
understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and
object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as
self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and
meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are
addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the
psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's
discoveries. This volume includes representative work from
established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with
sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and
clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf,
Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis
from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's
development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated
from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range
of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms
and signs, Freud noted in 1895, 'join in the conversation' by
taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is
the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast
field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this
collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic
understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and
object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as
self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and
meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are
addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the
psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's
discoveries. This volume includes representative work from
established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with
sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and
clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf,
Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).
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