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INTERPRETIVE VOICES INTERPRETIVE VOICES Responding to Patients Edited by Debbie Bandler Bellman and Jean Arundale First edition published in 2015 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2015 to Debbie Bandler Bellman and Jean Arundale for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have 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: 978-1-78220-037-6 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com For today’s and tomorrow’s analytic voices CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi INTRODUCTION xv Jean Arundale and Debbie Bandler Bellman CHAPTER ONE The voice behind the couch: whatever happened to the blank screen? 1 Sara Collins CHAPTER TWO Do interpretations tell the truth? 27 Jean Arundale CHAPTER THREE Hearing, being heard, and the fear of interpretation 43 Debbie Bandler Bellman vii viii CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Tactics and empathy: defences against projective identification 61 Lesley Steyn CHAPTER FIVE Double-sided interpretations and the severe superego 89 Julia Sandelson CHAPTER SIX The painful relinquishment of baseless hope: interpreting small steps towards reality 117 Michael Halton CHAPTER SEVEN Shades of doubt: scepticism, cynicism, and fundamentalism 143 Simon Archer CHAPTER EIGHT Interpreting two kinds of love 165 Joscelyn Richards CHAPTER NINE Destroying the knowledge of the need for love 189 David Morgan CHAPTER TEN “Holding and Interpretation”: Winnicott at work 205 Lesley Caldwell INDEX 227 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are very grateful to the many who have helped with this book. Especial thanks go to our contributors, for all their hard work and keenness to write, and without whom this volume would not exist. We have welcomed the chance to publish again with Karnac, and are indebted to our editorial contacts, Roderick Tweedy, the Project Manager Kate Pearce, and all others on Karnac’s production team. Our gratitude goes also to our colleagues, supervisors, and analysts, whose analytic voices have all made invaluable contributions to the development of our own. To our patients, we say thank you for guiding us in how to listen and speak in ways that are interpretively meaningful. In order to preserve the confidentiality of patients, we have left out any identifying details and disguised all clinical illustrations. Last but not least, we would like to thank our families and important others for their ongoing support and encouragement. ix
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