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Psychopathology II
April 17, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Michael Pauly, MD
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April 17, 2020 — Trauma (continued)
[38 pages]
36 pages of reading.
This week we continue our focus on the deep and lasting impact of trauma.
Bromberg, P.M. (2003). One Need Not Be a House to Be Haunted: On Enactment, Dissociation, and the Dread of “Not-Me”—A Case Study. Psychoanal. Dial., 13(5):689-709.
Phillip Bromberg in One need not be a house to be haunted: a case study, highlights how psychic trauma exceeds the capacity for cognitive processing, thereby leading to unintegratable affect that at times disorganizes the internal template on which self-coherence, self-cohesiveness, and self-continuity depend. He beautifully depicts how having affective memory without autobiographical memory leads to dissociated not me experiences that haunt the self (think back to Fear of Breakdown).
Brown, L. (2006) “Julie’s Museum: The evolution of thinking, dreaming and historicization in the treatment of traumatized patients” IJP, 87:1569-1585
Lawrence Brown, in Julie’s Museum: The Evolution of Thinking, Dreaming, and Historicization In the Treatment of Traumatized Patients, complements and extends Bromberg’s paper by linking trauma’s destruction of one’s internal thinking-containing capacity with the concretization of thought. His clinical example highlights the importance in these cases of the analyst’s imaginative capacity being crucial for helping their patients begin to think and dream, and to free themselves from the mental captivity of concrete thought. How do you share your imaginative capacity with your patients?
