Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition

293 Pages·2010·0.861 MB·English

by  Anne-Marie Schloesser, Alf Gerlach (eds.)

CROSSING BORDERS-
INTEGRATING DIFFERENCES
The EFPP Book Series
Series Editor: Dimitris Anastasopoulos
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CROSSING BORDERS-
INTEGRATING
DIFFERENCES
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
in Transition
Editors
Anne-Marie Schloesser
and Alf Gerlach
First published in 2010 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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Copyright © 2010 by Anne-Marie Schloesser and Alf Gerlach
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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
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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
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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
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