40 Citations
On developing an intersubjective frame for intellectual disability work
- PsychologyDisability and rehabilitation
- 2014
Intersubjective work could offer a new way of understanding psychotherapy and research with intellectually disabled individuals differing in degree and manner of impairment; address effects of subaltern voice, marginalisation, disempowerment and defense by equalising therapist–patient power (im)balances.
MOTHER-INFANT WORK AND ITS IMPACT ON PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH ADULTS
- Psychology
- 2009
Experiences from mother-infant psychoanalytic treatments help us understand and handle adult psychoanalyses. Babies flood us with non-verbal expressions of their feeling states. Working with a mother…
Prologue: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Humanistic Values
- PsychologyPsychoanalytic Inquiry
- 2020
This issue began in an interchange with Anna Ornstein. Anna had delivered her paper on, “The Relativity of Morality in the Contemporary World” (this issue), but felt skeptical about a…
Therapeutic Goals, Functional Capacity, and the Conditions of Therapeutic Action
- Psychology
- 2020
ABSTRACT Owen Renik has asserted the priority of therapeutic goals, “to afford the patient more satisfaction and less distress in life” over “psychoanalytic goals ... necessarily formulated in terms…
Discussion: “Airless Worlds: The Traumatic Sequalae of Identification with Parental Negation” Steven Stern
- PsychologyPsychoanalytic Dialogues
- 2019
Discussion of Stern’s essay (this issue) on the clinical demands of work with disturbed patients with catastrophic gaps in functioning stresses a number of perspectives on gaps and disavowal with…
Interpreting: for whom, and why?: The Perils of Metapsychology
- PsychologyThe International journal of psycho-analysis
- 2019
A translation of the classic paper by Michel de M’Uzan, Interpréter, Pour Qui, Pourquoi? (Interpreting: For Whom, andWhy?) and an attempt to find words to grasp the origins of subjective life.
The Epistemology Behind The Curtain: Thoughts on The Science of Psychoanalysis
- Psychology, PhilosophyThe Psychoanalytic quarterly
- 2017
The author suggests that there is in such interface the potential for an untheorized scientism in empiricist prescriptions for the reform and rescue of psychoanalysis, and revisits the notion that subjectivity as conceived psychoanalytically, grounded in lived experience, is irreducible in ways that are unique and existentially abiding.
A elaboração e seus modelos: Leitura principal, Congresso da IPA em Berlim, Julho de 2007
- Psychology, Philosophy
- 2016
A elaboracao e inerente ao trabalho psicanalitico, e sua propria forma, portanto esta sempre presente, mas muda de aspecto, de implicacao e de economia de acordo com as exigencias deste. Explorarei…
Infantile defences in parent‐infant psychotherapy: The example of gaze avoidance
- PsychologyThe International journal of psycho-analysis
- 2016
The author investigates if selective gaze avoidance in young babies may be described as a defence or even a defence mechanism, and compares his views on the baby as a subject with those suggested by infant researchers, for example, Stern and Beebe.
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On ethical issues at the foundation of the debate over the goals of psychoanalysis
- PsychologyThe International journal of psycho-analysis
- 2003
The author discusses two ethical issues: the complex nature of the ethical value of self‐determination in psychoanalysis, and the ethical status of analytic change, which contribute to an understanding both of the inherently controversialnature of the debate over analytic goals, and of the place of ethical considerations in psychoanalytic theory and practice.