Counterdreamers: analysts reading themselves

254 Pages·2018·2.18 MB·English

by  Acreche

COUNTERDREAMERS

COUNTERDREAMERS
Analysts Reading Themselves
edited by
Meg Harris Williams and Miriam Botbol Acreche
with Margarita Alvarez, Maisa Campos, Cenk Cokuslu,
Hila Degani, Nancy Moreno Dueñas, Mercè Ferrer,
Irene Freeden, Shifa Haq, Bianca Lechevalier,
Jeanne Magagna, Shalini Masih,
Mariângela Mendes de Almeida, Kina Meurle-Hallberg,
Plinio Montagna, Cecilia Muñoz Vila, Valeria Nader,
Ashis Roy, Gregory J. Stevens, and Marina Vanali
published for
The Harris Meltzer Trust
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CONTENTS
About the authors i x
Introduction
Meg Harris Williams and Miriam
Botbol Acreche xv
1 An awakening
Irene Freeden 1
2 Psychoanalytic listening in a case involving
corneal transplantation
Plinio Montagna 7
3 On somatic communication: when trauma
is not accessible as conscious memory
Margarita Alvarez 15
4 Bodily and mental dimensions of the
countertransference
Kina Meurle-Hallberg 33
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5 The imprisoned self
Jeanne Magagna 47
6 An encounter with eyes closed
Nancy Moreno Dueñas 65
7 Waiting in the dark
Shifa Haq and Shalini Masih 81
8 Building up clusters of meaning in
counterdreaming
Mariângela Mendes de Almeida 91
9 Countertransference dreams, unthinkable
anxieties, and the ending of analysis
Bianca Lechevalier 105
10 Dreamlike drawings and the
countertransference
Marina Vanali 121
11 Tales from nomadic geographies: problems
of psychic at-homeness
Cenk Cokuslu 129
12 Imagining undreamt and scattered selves
Ashis Roy 141
13 Dreaming face to face
Gregory J. Stevens 155
14 Counterdreaming in digital times
Miriam Botbol Acreche and
Valeria Nader 167
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15 Dreaming about patients:
counter transference dreams
Hila Degani 1 81
16 Counterdreams of a psychoanalytic
supervisor and researcher
Cecilia Muñoz Vila 199
17 Counterdreaming in supervision
Miriam Botbol Acreche, Maisa
Campos, and Mercè Ferrer 211
References 221
Name index 229
Subject index 231
The Counterdreamer, etching by Meg Harris Williams
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Margarita Alvarez has a doctorate in clinical psychology
from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She is a
graduate, member and faculty at the Massachusetts Institute
for Psychoanalysis and an adjunct member at La Asociación
Psicoanalítica Colombiana. In her private practice in Brookline,
she sees individuals, couples, and families struggling with mental
health symptoms indicative of a sense of alienation related to
early separations, neglect, family violence, and migratory experi-
ences influencing a sense of discontinuity of cultural identity. 
Miriam Botbol Acreche is a clinical psychologist and a founder
member of the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona (GPB) which
supervised with Donald Meltzer for many years. She works
with children and adults and has a special interest in parents.
She taught in Barcelona and Rosario, Argentina, where she lives
now. She has published chapters in various books, including
Teaching Meltzer and A Meltzer Reader. She is the author of Bebé
– Bienvenido al Mundo (0–3 años), El Orgullo de Descubrir (3–6
años), and Sueños, Símbolos y Perspectiva Estética: Un Trayecto
Psicoanalítico Personal en Compañía de Donald Meltzer.
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