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Deepening the Treatment
Deepening the Treatment
January 17, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Wyman Classroom
Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2021-22, 2nd Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Donald Schimmel, PhD
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January 17, 2022 — Mistakes, and Psychoanalytic Companioning
[55 pages]
Gilhooley, D. (2011). Mistakes. Psychoanal. Psychol., 28(2):311-333.
Stop reading at the beginning of the Discussion section on page 322.
Study Questions:
- What are some of the potential “paradoxical effects” of ruptures, mistakes and misunderstandings? (pp. 312 and 314)
- What are the dynamics of failures of recognition, according to Benjamin? What restores the relationship in cases of failures of recognition? (p. 312)
- How would you describe Gilhooley’s general protocol for a corrective or restorative response to a mistake? (pp. 316-322)
Grossmark, R. (2018). The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst. NY: Routledge. Ch3, “Psychoanalytic Companioning” pp54-75
Study Questions:
- With the term “psychoanalytic companioning,” Grossmark describes a kind of engagement with the patient that differs from the familiar mode of verbal/intellectual relating. How does he define psychoanalytic companioning?
- Grossmark suggests it is necessary to work “in the companioning register” with specific patients and/or self-states. What are some of the self-states for which the standard verbal engagement might not be useful?
- Grossmark uses the imagery of darkness and light to illustrate the particular ways of relating for which he advocates. What is his recommendation to clinicians invoking darkness and light?
Grossmark, R. (2018). The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst. NY: Routledge. Ch4, “The eloquence of action” pp76-85
