A case history: From traumatic repetition towards psychic representability
This paper is devoted principally to a case history concerning an analytic process extending over a period of almost ten years. The patient is B, who consulted the author after a traumatic episode. Although that was her reason for commencing treatment, a history of previous traumatogenic situations,...
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todo:paper_00207578_v89_n3_p541_Bichi2023-10-03T14:18:37Z A case history: From traumatic repetition towards psychic representability Bichi, E.L. Construction Interpretation Repetition Setting Trauma Working through adult anxiety article assault case report consultation counter transference divorce family life father child relation female human human relation interpersonal communication introspection life event loneliness mother child relation patient attitude personal experience psychoanalysis psychologist psychotrauma rape self concept self evaluation sexual behavior social isolation transference verbal communication Countertransference (Psychology) Ego Free Association Freudian Theory Humans Life Change Events Object Attachment Professional-Patient Relations Psychoanalytic Interpretation Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalytic Therapy Psychotherapeutic Processes Rape Transference (Psychology) Treatment Outcome This paper is devoted principally to a case history concerning an analytic process extending over a period of almost ten years. The patient is B, who consulted the author after a traumatic episode. Although that was her reason for commencing treatment, a history of previous traumatogenic situations, including a rape during her adolescence, subsequently came to light. The author describes three stages of the treatment, reflected in three different settings in accordance with the work done by both patient and analyst in enabling B to own and work through her infantile and adult traumatic experiences. The process of transformation of traumatic traces lacking psychic representation, which was undertaken by both members of the analytic couple from the beginning of the treatment, was eventually approached in a particular way on the basis of their respective creative capacities, which facilitated the patient's psychic progress towards representability and the possibility of working through the experiences of the past. Much of the challenge of this case involved the analyst's capacity to maintain and at the same time consolidate her analytic posture within her internal setting, while doing her best to overcome any possible misfit (Balint, 1968) between her own technique and the specific complexities of the individual patient. The account illustrates the alternation of phases, at the beginning of the analysis, of remembering and interpretation on the one hand and of the representational void and construction on the other. In the case history proper and in her detailed summing up, the author refers to the place of the analyst during the analytic process, the involvement of her psychic functioning, and the importance of her capacity to work on and make use of her countertransference and self-analytic introspection, with a view to neutralizing any influence that aspects of her 'real person' might have had on the analytic field and on the complex processes taking place within it. © 2008 Institute of Psychoanalysis. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00207578_v89_n3_p541_Bichi |
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Construction Interpretation Repetition Setting Trauma Working through adult anxiety article assault case report consultation counter transference divorce family life father child relation female human human relation interpersonal communication introspection life event loneliness mother child relation patient attitude personal experience psychoanalysis psychologist psychotrauma rape self concept self evaluation sexual behavior social isolation transference verbal communication Countertransference (Psychology) Ego Free Association Freudian Theory Humans Life Change Events Object Attachment Professional-Patient Relations Psychoanalytic Interpretation Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalytic Therapy Psychotherapeutic Processes Rape Transference (Psychology) Treatment Outcome |
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Construction Interpretation Repetition Setting Trauma Working through adult anxiety article assault case report consultation counter transference divorce family life father child relation female human human relation interpersonal communication introspection life event loneliness mother child relation patient attitude personal experience psychoanalysis psychologist psychotrauma rape self concept self evaluation sexual behavior social isolation transference verbal communication Countertransference (Psychology) Ego Free Association Freudian Theory Humans Life Change Events Object Attachment Professional-Patient Relations Psychoanalytic Interpretation Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalytic Therapy Psychotherapeutic Processes Rape Transference (Psychology) Treatment Outcome Bichi, E.L. A case history: From traumatic repetition towards psychic representability |
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Construction Interpretation Repetition Setting Trauma Working through adult anxiety article assault case report consultation counter transference divorce family life father child relation female human human relation interpersonal communication introspection life event loneliness mother child relation patient attitude personal experience psychoanalysis psychologist psychotrauma rape self concept self evaluation sexual behavior social isolation transference verbal communication Countertransference (Psychology) Ego Free Association Freudian Theory Humans Life Change Events Object Attachment Professional-Patient Relations Psychoanalytic Interpretation Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalytic Therapy Psychotherapeutic Processes Rape Transference (Psychology) Treatment Outcome |
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This paper is devoted principally to a case history concerning an analytic process extending over a period of almost ten years. The patient is B, who consulted the author after a traumatic episode. Although that was her reason for commencing treatment, a history of previous traumatogenic situations, including a rape during her adolescence, subsequently came to light. The author describes three stages of the treatment, reflected in three different settings in accordance with the work done by both patient and analyst in enabling B to own and work through her infantile and adult traumatic experiences. The process of transformation of traumatic traces lacking psychic representation, which was undertaken by both members of the analytic couple from the beginning of the treatment, was eventually approached in a particular way on the basis of their respective creative capacities, which facilitated the patient's psychic progress towards representability and the possibility of working through the experiences of the past. Much of the challenge of this case involved the analyst's capacity to maintain and at the same time consolidate her analytic posture within her internal setting, while doing her best to overcome any possible misfit (Balint, 1968) between her own technique and the specific complexities of the individual patient. The account illustrates the alternation of phases, at the beginning of the analysis, of remembering and interpretation on the one hand and of the representational void and construction on the other. In the case history proper and in her detailed summing up, the author refers to the place of the analyst during the analytic process, the involvement of her psychic functioning, and the importance of her capacity to work on and make use of her countertransference and self-analytic introspection, with a view to neutralizing any influence that aspects of her 'real person' might have had on the analytic field and on the complex processes taking place within it. © 2008 Institute of Psychoanalysis. |
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