Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 12:00-1:30pm
Píyale Cömert, PhD

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November 6, 2020 — Attachment styles and fragmented presentation

(Class ends at 12:45pm due to the CAAO meeting.)

The quality of coherence and integration in a patient’s presentation is an important source of information. How do we notice and assess this quality? How do we respond to the implications of what we hear?

Optional Reading

Winnicott, D.W. (1949). Hate in the Counter-Transference. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 30:69-74.

Epstein, L. (1977). The Therapeutic Function of Hate in the Countertransference. Contemp. Psychoanal., 13:442-460.

Coen, S.J. (2003). The Thrall of the Negative and How to Analyze it. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 51(2):465-489.

Davies, J.M. (2004). Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil. Psychoanal. Dial., 14(6):711-732.

Fosshage, J.L. (2005). Moments of Therapeutic Impasse: Commentary on Jody Messler Davies’s “Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil”. Psychoanal. Dial., 15(5):759-769.

I am following up with some articles about feelings of “hate” in the analyst with the hope that you may find some helpful ideas in them to develop your own perspective, whenever you choose to read them.