1st Edition

Taking the Transference, Reaching Toward Dreams Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area

By M. Gerard Fromm Copyright 2012
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction , Impasse and transitional relatedness , What does “borderline” mean? , Disturbances of Self in the Psychoanalytic Setting , The hope in hopelessness , Something opened up , From bodies to words , Illusion and desire , Unconscious creative activity and the restoration of reverie , Taking the transference , Psychosis, trauma, and the speechless context , Dreams represented in dreams , Interpretation in psychoanalysis , The therapeutic community as a holding environment

Biography

M Gerard Fromm