British Object Relations
October 4, 2024 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Classroom Three
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Third Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2024-25, Fall Term — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Matthew Brooks, LICSW, FIPA
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October 4, 2024 — Clinical reflections and divergence from Klein
[12 pages]
Paula Heimann was another close colleague of Klein. This short paper is a clear and modestly argued position statement about the centrality of the analyst’s emotional, subjective experience in connecting with the patient’s unconscious. Klein could not agree with this; their argument led Heimann to group herself with the Independents in the London Institute.
Betty Joseph was an analysand of Heimann. From our perspective she is a linking figure between Klein and Bion. In her extensive body of work, she explored the value of close attention to process, and prioritized working in the here-and-now over making “deeper” part-object interpretations. She emphasized openness to all sources of information in the clinical encounter, including the countertransference and the ‘total situation’ of a patient’s transferences and object world. Joseph’s vision powerfully expands the idea of psychoanalysis, while presented very much in a Kleinian dialect.
Heimann, P. (1950). On Counter-Transference. Int J Psychoanalysis, 31: 81-84.
Joseph, B. (1985). Transference: The Total Situation. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 66:447-454.
Optional Reading
Joseph, B. (1975). “The patient who is difficult to reach” in P.L. Giovacchini (Ed.) Tactics and Techniques in Psychoanalytic Therapy Vol. 2: Countertransference, pp75-87.
