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McWilliams devotes a rich chapter to the special challenges of psychoanalytic supervision. By McWilliams, Nancy. McWilliams warns that she knows of "numerous instances in which an analytic supervisor seems to have treated a supervisee too much like a patient and too little like a mentee" (p. 37). It is intriguing to see how McWilliams addresses self states and dissociation in patients and in supervisees. [Extracted from the article]

Freud may have viewed her, like Ferenczi, as a dangerous threat to his discovery of the pathogenic role of fantasies, since both Ferenczi and Severn often found that "reality lay under the fantasies" (p. 80). It was Rudnytsky who made the key discovery that one of the case reports in Severn's book is of her "patient" Ferenczi, during their mutual analysis. Clara Thompson made the crucial observation that Ferenczi had what Rudnytsky paraphrases as "a penchant for unconsciously parodying Freud's ideas by taking them to "absurd" conclusions" (p. 109). [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that the possible source of the phrase 'Feath'red King' in the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle" can be the collection of poems "The Mirour for Magistrates." It mentions "Love's Martyr" poem written by poet Robert Chester to celebrate the martyred Earl of Essex, an English nobleman and his love for Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare's grief over the death of Queen Elizabeth.

The patient's spontaneous disclosure of a parent's name is frequently associated with appearance of core conflicts, especially genetic and transference themes of incest, other oedipal derivatives, and separation anxiety.Using a parent's first name has the unconscious implication of incest, since one is doing something which one's other parent but not oneself is allowed to do. In some primitive cultures, saying aloud the names of one's parents was strictly forbidden. Disclosing a parent's name to the analyst may parallel the developmental step during childhood when the patient learned the parent had a first name. The child's acquisition of language, including proper names, fosters object constancy and the internalization of the parents, from whom language is learned.For patients who do not usually refer to a sibling by name, disclosure of the sibling's name may also reflect the concurrent emergence of central conflicts. In particular, such disclosure may accompany associations about an earlier closeness with the sibling giving way to subsequent estrangement. Naming the sibling may also mark an intensification of a sibling transference to the analyst. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The patient's therapeutic regression intensifies certain unconscious meanings of the analytic couch. In addition to representing the analysis or the analyst in general, the couch can represent the unconscious, or it may lake on the symbolic significance of the analyst's or mother's arms, lap, breasts, or womb. When the genetic roots of the patient's transference include substantial experiences of disappointment, narcissistic injury, and mistrust, the theme of falling from the couch may emerge as a dream, an association, or even an enactment. This theme usually implies the presence of a deepening but mistrustful transference, based on earlier disappointments by the patient's primary objects. Falling off the couch may be associated with being dropped as an infant, rolling out of bed as a child, birth, miscarriage, castration, death, termination, defending against passive wishes, punishment for sexual or aggressive transgressions, escaping an attack, descending into the unconscious, or wanting to be picked up and comforted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]