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Embodiment represents a new theoretical development and innovative research perspective within cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, emphasizing the role that the body has in shaping the mind. However, the idea of mind and body being interconnected is an old one and has long roots within psychoanalysis, e.g., in character analytic tradition emphasizing the "how" of relating and talking as expressed in nonverbal behavior and body language. The article explores how the patient's embodied, structuralized bearing and bodily appearance reveal relational messages. Through a case presentation, I illustrate how embodied affects and ways-of-being are actualized in the transference and can be captured through the embodied emotional response of the analyst. I argue that the concept of relational scenario emerges as fruitful for observing transference-countertransference dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let me close this issue by returning to where I began, with the slouching beast in Yeats's "The Second Coming", one of the "beings who inhabit Yeats's apocalyptic poems that await their 'hour,'" a beast that "foretells a monstrous birth" (Vendler, [10], p. 139, 170). How, I wonder, would such a monstrous birth and the nightmare and catastrophe Yeats's poem describes apply to our becoming our analyst self? Jung continues: The analyst would have to "clearly understand that psychic infections ... are in fact the predestined concomitants of ... [the work]" (Jung, [6], para. That's the most challenging question I find we must continue to ponder when we look at the association of Yeats's poem and its slouching beast with the emergence of our analyst self. [Extracted from the article]

Since the inception of the course in 2007, we have met for a Saturday class and barbeque at Allen Siegel's home in Winnetka. What follows is first a statement by Allen about how he teaches the class, and then we include a sampling of the students' questions to Allen and their accounts of Allen's responses. The setting of Allen's home enabled our conversation as a class to feel more open and comfortable, a feeling that was propagated by Allen's deep sense of empathy and invigorated by his passionate responses to everyone in the class. I During the class, I asked Allen whether there is always a transference involved in each psychotherapy, because I can clearly see how the transference is developed in the vignettes from "John's" case (in Allen's book) but cannot really find it in "Winston's" case. i. [Extracted from the article]

I contend that free association, far from being outdated, is a most central feature of the method of psychoanalysis, as it operates an essential reopening of the process of translation/repression. Free association sinks its roots in a Helmholtzian model of the mind and is, therefore, also congruent with modern neuroscience. Through the notion of surprise, logical and practical connections can be established between free association, seduction, trauma, and transference. A well-conceived concept of free association is, therefore, an indispensable tool for the practice of psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the process of psychoanalytic couple therapy from an attachment perspective. A brief and selective history of the transference interpretation sets the scene for considering applications to couple psychoanalysis, where there are multiple transference sites, and some implications of attachment theory where the unconscious is viewed not only in dynamic terms, but also as nonconscious information processing systems. Attention is drawn to the potential for working with the nonverbal communication of affective states which, through affectively charged repetitive sequences over time, impacts on procedural knowledge. Implicit intersubjective interactions, often expressed through behavior, make up the temporal region described as beingbeforeinterpretation, whose impact may well gobeyondverbal interpretation in terms of its mutative effects. This distinction is also used to distinguish interpretations that understand present behavior as a repetition of the past (in this sense ofgoing before) from those that focus on its function in trying to achieve an aspired to future (going beyond). In both cases, couple psychotherapists work in the space between intersubjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud developed many of his theories and technique while attempting to help hysterical patients. This article approaches hysteria not just as a syndrome consisting of a group of signs and symptoms, but primarily as an inner world configuration that fuels object relations patterns. The internal world hysterical profile informs the transference/countertransference experience and the therapeutic process. I attempt to describe some of the technical problems psychoanalysts have to deal with while working with these patients. Hysterical object relations do not necessarily manifest themselves as somatic symptoms—epileptic-like, paralysis, blindness, etc.—even in patients that show the relational hysterical patterns. These object relations modes can appear in any analysis irrespective of the primary diagnostic conceptualization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Classical psychoanalytic tradition reinforced the idea that the patient use free association and the analyst was similarly limited to a rule of free-floating attention (listening) leading to interpretation of unconscious trends. The central aim of technique was to ensure that transference of the past onto the analyst would occur in a context that could permit interpretations of the transference. This article examines ways in which therapists use psychoanalytic theory to distance themselves from the relational aspect of the therapeutic dyad. The use of the therapists’ use of a professional self as a protective and distancing in the course of an analysis or therapy tends to derail the development of a successful therapeutic engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is generally wide acceptance that transference develops in child and adolescent psychoanalytic treatments. The interpretation of the transference is an important aspect of analytic technique, leading to both insight and clinical improvement. This article uses vignettes to demonstrate how interpretation of a child’s dreams may help the analyst and the young patient understand the patient’s feelings about the analyst, and may ultimately provide the patient with transformative insights regarding the important people in his life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article examines clinical and theoretical aspects of insight as a therapeutic tool in the analysis of dreams of children and adolescents. Suggestions are offered for creative ways of engaging the child’s interest in dreamwork. Although some analysts have thought that little can be accomplished by working with dreams in the analysis of children, I demonstrate that gaining access to unconscious conflicts, working in the context of transference, and deepening the material through the use of insight has a salutary effect on the child or adolescent patient. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This posthumous publication consists of three parts written at different times by Takeo Doi. The second part was written in 1964 as his presentation at the first congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry. The first part was added when the second part was introduced to the Japanese readers in 1969. The third part was written about Freud’sObservations on Transference-Love(Contemporary Freud) in 1993. Upon Doi’s return to Japan in 1956 after a disappointing experience in the United States, where it was recommended that he return to Japan by Dr. Reider, Takeo Doi investigated himself personally and culturally. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After integrating and elaborating on the corresponding definitions of interpretation in major standing psychoanalytic dictionaries, I highlight the differences between the interpretative process and its objectives for patients with neurotic personality organization and those with severe personality disorders. To illustrate the interpretative process within the Transference Focused Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality organization, the clinical vignette, depicting the interpretation of projective mechanisms as part of interpretation of primitive object relations activated in transference, is presented verbatim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from concepts that Winnicott developed and that are unexpectedly near to postmodern concepts, I attempt to map some features of the complex territory that lies between analyst and patient from the viewpoint of the relationship that exists between subjectivity and objectivity. In the first section, I give a personal reading of Winnicottian model, emphasizing the idea that the subject’s unconscious acts upon and transforms the object’s (thereby putting in motion further unconscious processes within the object). Then I highlight the presence, in the transference, of various levels of communication and of a paradoxical multidimensionality that upsets the traditional space-time categories and also upsets the analyst’s mental stance. In the third section, I present a new form of countertransference (pervasive), through which the patient’s unconscious creates a sensory environment of proto-emotions and atmospheres, of states and rhythms, that have permeated it and that, due to their intensity and nature, arrived there without symbolization. Finally, I attempt to demonstrate how the patient can undergo psychic change only if the analyst has, himself, inhabited an analogous process of transformation in response to the disturbances arising within the analytical relationship. Theclinical-theoretical stanceemerging from these reflections sees the relation to the other, to oneself, and to the world as made possible by subjective creation always taking place in the unconscious. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on views of author in response to writer Gail Reed's work. He appreciated and thanked Reed for giving her time on his ideas of psychoanalysis and connecting it with work of psychoanalyst André Green. It also discusses observations and the statement of Steven Goldberg, Senior Investigator at Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland regarding transference.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses topics within the issue including writing by three prominent authors whose works are influenced by ideas of psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, analytic pragmatism, conflict theory and contemporary views of transference.

The article describes the author's views regarding the impact of Psychoanalyst Antonino Ferro's writing and clinical teaching on analysts at many centers. He states that Ferro's work has moved away from traditional notions of transference toward conceptualization of interpersonal psychoanalysis in which terms such as transference and countertransference are inadequate to convey his meaning. It also include two clinical reports to explain Ferro's approach and author's response to it.

The article discusses R. Karush and A. Schmukler's dreams from their patients that connect the analytic process, transference and insight and how they worked with them. It cites the example of 7 year old Tanya which shows how dream can illuminate the transference and Schmulker's description of how the dream of monsters of 7 year old Jim prompted him to wonder about his role in injuries and accidents. It notes how they demonstrate in their articles how dreams facilitate the process of knowing.