Another Kind of Evidence: Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety and Progressive Symbolization in the Psychoanalytic Process

381 Pages·2011·1.078 MB·English

by  Norbert Freedman, Marvin Hurvich, Rhonda Ward

ANOTHER KIND OF EVIDENCE
CIPS Series on The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis
Series Editor: Meg Beaudoin, PhD, FIPA
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A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation
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ANOTHER KIND
OF EVIDENCE
Studies on Internalization,
Annihilation Anxiety,
and Progressive Symbolization
in the Psychoanalytic Process
Norbert Freedman, Marvin Hurvich,
and Rhonda Ward
with
Jesse D. Geller and Joan Hoffenberg
First published in 2011 by
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE xiii
ABOUT THE MAIN AUTHORS xvii
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS xix
PREAMBLE xxiii
Norbert Freedman
PART I: HOW THERAPY LIVES ON
FOREWORD
Joan Hoffenberg and Norbert Freedman 3
CHAPTER ONE
The effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy:
the role of treatment, duration, frequency of sessions,
and the therapeutic relationship 5
Norbert Freedman, Joan Hoffenberg, Neal Vorus, and Allan Frosch
v
vi CONTENTS
CHAPTER TWO
Patients’ representations of the therapeutic dialogue:
a pathway towards the evaluation of psychotherapy
process and outcome 17
Jesse D. Geller, Donna S. Bender, Norbert Freedman,
Joan Hoffenberg, Denise Kagan, Carrie Schaffer,
and Neal Vorus
CHAPTER THREE
The RTD Coding System and its clinical application:
a new approach to studying patients’ representations
of the Therapeutic Dialogue 29
Jesse D. Geller, Donna S. Bender, Norbert Freedman,
Joan Hoffenberg, Denise Kagan, Carrie Schaffer, and
Neal Vorus
CHAPTER FOUR
Representations of the therapeutic dialogue and the
post-termination phase of psychotherapy 55
Jesse D. Geller and Norbert Freedman
CHAPTER FIVE
Reminiscing and recollecting 67
Jamieson Webster and Norbert Freedman
COMMENTARY
How therapy lives on 83
Norbert Freedman and Joan Hoffenberg
PART II: THREE PATHWAYS TOWARDS
THE MODIFICATION OF ANNIHILATION
ANXIETY
FOREWORD
Marvin Hurvich and Norbert Freedman 89
CHAPTER SIX
The Propositional Method for the study
of psychoanalytic concepts 91
Marvin Hurvich and Norbert Freedman
CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER SEVEN
Meet Mohamed and the method implemented 105
Marvin Hurvich and Norbert Freedman
CHAPTER EIGHT
Annihilation Anxiety and its transformation during early
transference engagement: sessions 3 and 4 119
Norbert Freedman, Marvin Hurvich, and Alexandra Petrou
CHAPTER NINE
Termination crisis and a panic attack: sessions 41 and 42 139
Norbert Freedman, Marvin Hurvich, and Alexandra Petrou
CHAPTER TEN
Transformations in long-term psychoanalytic
psychotherapy: the case of Ms K 159
Rhonda Ward, Norbert Freedman, and Marvin Hurvich
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Severely traumatized patients’ attempts at reorganizing
their relations to others in psychotherapy: an
enunciation analysis 167
Sverre Varvin and Bent Rosenbaum
COMMENTARY
Three pathways towards the modification
of Annihilation Anxiety 183
Marvin Hurvich and Norbert Freedman
PART III: A SPECIMEN OF WORKING THROUGH
CHAPTER TWELVE
A very broad concept seen through a very narrow lens 191
Norbert Freedman and Rhonda Ward
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Method and findings: the case of Ms Y:
the patient and her analyst within the context
of a recorded psychoanalysis 203
Norbert Freedman, Richard Lasky, and Rhonda Ward
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The induction of transference regression
during the symbolizing phase: sessions 232 to 243 223
Norbert Freedman and Rhonda Ward
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The emergence of nodal moments during the desymbolizing
phase: sessions 245 to 249 245
Norbert Freedman and Rhonda Ward
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The enactive phase: sessions 252 to 255 267
Norbert Freedman and Rhonda Ward
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The cycle and the spiral during the re-symbolizing phase:
the erotic transference, the extraordinary
countertransference, and the preservation
of the analytic process: session 257 283
Norbert Freedman and Rhonda Ward
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Nodal moments and the essence of Progressive Symbolization 297
Norbert Freedman and Rhonda Ward
POSTSCRIPT
Towards a psychoanalytic definition of symbolization
and desymbolization 309
Norbert Freedman, Rhonda Ward, and Jamieson Webster
REFERENCES 323
INDEX 341
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
From the beginning the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training
and Research (IPTAR) conceived of itself as a society commit-
ted to research in psychoanalysis. As a psychoanalytic society,
we are dedicated to conducting research, to the teaching of research,
and to the communication of research discoveries to the community
at large, that is, to making psychoanalytic inquiry a part of the con-
sciousness of the next generation of psychoanalysts. This volume,
and its title, Another Kind of Evidence, celebrate our history, and the
work of our members and partners in this pursuit.
* * *
For the authors of this volume I would like to acknowledge:
The founders of IPTAR, particularly Daisy Franco, who in 1960
formed the first IPTAR Research Committee, which directed its
efforts towards learning and exploring the then new discoveries
about dreaming, the separation-individuation process, and gender
identity. These achievements were recorded over the decades in
IPTAR Reports.
The 1989 IPA Rome Congress, which made IPTAR, after years
of exile, a member of the international psychoanalytic community,
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