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CROSSING BORDERS- INTEGRATING DIFFERENCES The EFPP Book Series Series Editor: Dimitris Anastasopoulos OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES (cid:129) Counter-transference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Chil- dren and Adolescents (cid:129) Supervision and its Vicissitudes (cid:129) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings (cid:129) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent (cid:129) Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (cid:129) Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and the Future (cid:129) Research in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults (cid:129) The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process (cid:129) Invisible Boundaries. Psychosis and Autism in Children and Adolescents. (cid:129) The Development of Consciousness: Psychoanalysis, neuroscience and child development. (cid:129) The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept CROSSING BORDERS- INTEGRATING DIFFERENCES Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition Editors Anne-Marie Schloesser and Alf Gerlach First published in 2010 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2010 by Anne-Marie Schloesser and Alf Gerlach The right of Anne-Marie Schloesser and Alf Gerlach to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-783-7 Typeset by Vikatan Publishing Solutions (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS PREFACE ix Serge Frisch ABOUT THE AUTHORS xv INTRODUCTION xxi Anne-Marie Schloesser and Alf Gerlach SECTION I Questioning psychoanalytical conceptualisation 1 CHAPTER ONE On transference interpretation as a resistance to free association 3 Christopher Bollas CHAPTER TWO Attachment and psychoanalysis: Is the concept of attachment drive really heretical? 23 Bernard Golse v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER THREE Combining individual and group therapy in an out-patient setting for patients with personality disorders—useful approach or invitation to acting out? 39 Hermann Staats CHAPTER FOUR Must one respect religiosity? 55 Jan Philipp Reemtsma SECTION II Psychotherapy in culture and society: Problems of migration, interculturality 77 CHAPTER FIVE Trauma, Migration and Creativity 79 Peter Bründl CHAPTER SIX Culture-orientated psychoanalysis: On taking cultural background into account in the therapy of migrants 95 Sieglinde Eva Tömmel CHAPTER SEVEN Similar and yet different. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with first and later generation immigrants in the Netherlands 113 Wouter Gomperts CHAPTER EIGHT Teaching psychotherapy as a bridge in a multicultural environment 127 Elitsur Bernstein SECTION III Widening the borders in psychoanalytic treatment 135 CONTENTS vviiii CHAPTER NINE Reflecting on borderline pathologies: The perverse core and its role in the crossroads between self-representation and confusion 137 Luisa Perrone and Maurizio Russo CHAPTER TEN Aborted hope: Transference and countertransference implications of a narcissistic phantasy 147 Georgia Chalkia CHAPTER ELEVEN Experiencing loss and mourning in the countertransference 163 Grigoris Maniadakis CHAPTER TWELVE Function of borders: Permeability and demarcation. The contact barrier in the psychoanalytic process 177 Martin Teising CHAPTER THIRTEEN The infra-verbal dimension of language in the transference: Its significance in the therapeutic process 189 Irini Vlahaki SECTION IV Is psychoanalytic research possible? 201 CHAPTER FOURTEEN The profession and empirical research— sovereignty and integration 203 Michael B. Buchholz CHAPTER FIFTEEN Evidence-based psychoanalysis— a critical discussion of research into psychoanalytic therapy 227 Alf Gerlach viii CONTENTS CHAPTER SIXTEEN Psychosocial problems of patients with difficult to treat depression 239 Stephan Hau, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Heinrich Deserno INDEX 257 PREFACE Serge Frisch Crossing borders, integrating differences can be understood in various ways. My intention here is to take the phrase as meaning something along the lines of building bridges and establishing links—terms which, for me, immediately evoke Freud’s metapsychology and its therapeutic applications. Psychoanalysis is a theory of oppositions, of frontiers, of confrontations between psychical agencies in both Freud’s topographical theory and the structural one that he later devised; this is the case also of the antagonism between the pleas- ure-unpleasure principle and the reality principle, between the life and death drives, etc. From the very beginnings of psychoanalysis, Freud showed that each of us is in fact a stranger to him- or herself, a divided self—we are by no means master in our own house. We are all of us inhabited by our Unconscious—the internal other—and by our internal objects: the superego to begin with, as well as the infinite number of part-objects or whole objects that participate in our internal theatre and bring it to life, as Klein and Bion were later to demonstrate. The idea of conflict (the term “frontier disputes” springs to mind) is central to this idea of opposition. The clinical setting of psychoanalysis, the fundamental rule which calls on the patient to “say everything” and the analyst’s benevolent ix
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