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Invasive Objects
The \"Director\" controls Ms. B's life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The \"Director\" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone.
The story of Ms. B's analysis is one of many vivid illustrations presented in this collection of papers by Paul Williams, who shares his lifetime of experience working with severely disturbed patients. As the title suggests, the unifying thread of these papers is the investigation of serious mental disturbance, often characterized by the presence of intrusive and invasive thoughts and fantasies that originate in a traumatic past but which can colonize and destroy the rational mind. The diverse papers are grouped into two related sections. Part one is comprised of papers with a clinical orientation, including a summary of the analysis of Ms. B as well as a speculative paper on the psychosis and recovery of John Nash. In part two, applied psychoanalytic thinking is integrated with Williams' other professional passion, anthropology, in a paper that exemplifies generative thought through art, poetry, and tribal masks. Other papers in this section include a short essay that takes Freud-bashers to task, a reappraisal of the Rat Man, and a lively discussion of André Green's \"central phobic position\" in borderline thinking.
Whether engaging in the coconstructed therapeutic relationship or the implications for \"madness in society\" at large, Williams' diverse influences - psychoanalytic and otherwise - repeatedly come to the fore in an intellectually stimulating and clinically enriching way. It goes without saying that work with patients whose thinking is psychotic is a challenge,
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Transcending the Legacies of Slavery
This book puts psychological trauma at its centre. Using psychoanalysis, it assesses what was lost, how it was lost and how the loss is compulsively repeated over generations. There is a conceptualization of this trauma as circular. Such a situation makes it stubbornly persistent. It is suggested that central to the system of slavery was the separating out of procreation from maternity and paternity. This was achieved through the particular cruelties of separating couples at the first sign of loving interest in each other; and separating infants from their mothers. Cruelty disturbed the natural flow of events in the mind and disturbed the approach to and the resolution of the Oedipus Complex conflict. This is traced through the way a new kind of family developed in the Caribbean and elsewhere where slavery remained for hundreds of years.
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Third Reich in the Unconscious
The Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational Transmission and Its Consequences examines the effects of the Holocaust on second-generation survivors and specifically describes how historical images and trauma are transferred. The authors reveal the many ways in which the psychological legacy of the Nazi regime manifests itself in subsequent generations and how psychopathology, if present, can assume a number of different forms. Among the detailed case histories and treatment considerations, the text provides insight for developing strategies that will tame and eventually prevent transgenerational transmission.
Dr. Volkan has taught at the University of Virginia since 1963, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Mind and Human Interaction under the auspices of the University's medical school. He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Volkan has authored or co-authored 24 books and edited or co-edited 7 more. Gabriele Ast, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and family practice physician in private practice in Munich, Germany. William F. Greer, Jr. Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and faculty member of the Center of Psychoanalytic Studies at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ira Brenner, M.D.
Introdcution
PART I. ON THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF HISTORY
1. Beyond PTSD: From Trauma to Transgenerational Transmission
2. The Role of Others in Mental Development
3. Varieties of Transgenerational Transmission
4. History-Related Unconscious Fantasies
PART II. CASE STUDIES
5. Jacob: The Inability to Mourn
6. Leo: A Jewish Man Living in Two Worlds
7. Uta: A Gypsy Under White Linen
8. Sabine: A German Woman's \"Self-Analysis\"
9. The Psychotherapeutic Study Group for People Affected by the Holocaust: Toward Ending the \"Silence\" in Germany
10. The Use of Third Reich Symbols by Americans Unaffected by the Holocaust
PART III. THERAPEUTIC CONSIDERATIONS
11. Different Cases, Different Approaches
Afterword: Ramifications
References
Index
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Psychotherapists as expert witnesses
The book describes the author's extensive experience of working as an expert witness in family courts. It provides detailed guidance for assessing families for the courts, as well giving many detailed clinical examples to illustrate points made.
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Love, Hate and Knowledge
This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact, which is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up psychoanalytic treatment. It tackles a subject which has been a topic of debate for decades regarding what constitutes psychoanalysis. This usually centres on theoretical ideals regarding analyzability, goals, or procedure and external criteria such as frequency or use of couch. Instead, the concept of analytic contact looks at what takes place with a patient in the clinical situation.
Each chapter in this book follows a wide spectrum of cases and clinical situations where hard to reach patients are provided the best opportunity for health and healing through the establishment of analytic contact. This case material closely tracks each patient’s phantasies and transference mechanisms which work to either increase; oppose; embrace; or neutralize analytic contact. In addition, the fundamental internal conflicts all patients struggle with between love, hate, and knowledge are represented by extensive case report.
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