The Edge of Experience: Borderline and Psychosomatic Patients in Clinical Practice

122 Pages·2001·4.588 MB·English

by  Andreas Rabavilas, Grigoris Vaslamatzis

THE EDGE
OF EXPERIENCE

THE EDGE
OF EXPERIENCE
~~ ~
Borderline and Psychosomatic Patients
in Clinical Practice
Edited by
Grigoris Vaslamatzis & Andreas Rabavilas
in collaboration with
R. D. Hinshelwood
London & NewYork
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Anna Potamianou; chapter 3 copyright 0 2001 Anthony W. Bateman;
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2001 Peter Hartocollis; chapter 6 copyright 0 2001 Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo;
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CONTENTS
EDITORS AND CONTRlSUTORS vii
PREFACE xi
lNTRODUCJlON
R. D. Hinshelwood xv
CHAPTER ONE
Psychoanalytic treatment with psychosomatic patients
Marilia Aisenstein 1
CHAPTER TWO
Sounds of the soma
Anna Potarnianou 17
CHAPTER THREE
Day hospital treatment of borderline personality disorder
and the containment of enactment
Anthony W. Bateman 25
V
vi CHAPTER AUTHOR
CHAPTER FOUR
On the therapist’s reverie and containing function
Grigoris Vaslam a tzis 41
CHAPTER FIVE
Psychodynamic therapy of severe personality disorders
Peter Hartocollis 51
CHAPTER SIX
Self-envy and intrapsychic interpretation
in borderline states
Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo 57
CHAPTER SEVEN
Lust for love
llany Kogan 67
REFERENCES 89
lNDEX 95
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Marilia Aisenstein is a Training Analyst at the Paris Psychoana-
lytic Society and a Member of the Psychosomatic Institute of
Paris. She is also Editor of the French Review of Psychosomatics.
She has worked for seventeen years in the Association de Santk
Mentale du 13emeA rrondissement with psychotic and border-
line patients.
Anthony W. Bateman is a Consultant Psychotherapist at St. Ann's
Hospital, London, and a Member of the British Psycho-Analyti-
cal Society. He is co-author of introduction to Psychoanalysis: Con-
temporay The0y and Practice.
Peter Hartocollis was Director of the Menninger Memorial Hos-
pital, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Topeka Insti-
tute for Psychoanalysis, and Chairman of Psychiatry at the
University of Patras Medical School (in Greece), where he is
now Professor Emeritus. He is also Training and Supervising
Analyst of the Hellenic Provisional Psychoanalytic Society. He
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is the author or editor of Borderline Personality Disorders, Time
and Timelessness, The Personal Myth, and Introduction to Psychi-
atry (in Greek).
R. D. Hinshelwood is Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Univer-
sity of Essex and a Full Member and Training and Supervising
Analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He is author or
editor of many books, including Clinical Klein, A Dictionary of
Kleinian Thought, and Z'krapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis
Differ from Brainwashing?
Ilany Kogan is Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Soci-
ety. As a Lecturer and Supervisor at the Tel-Aviv University
Medical School, she worked extensively with Holocaust sur-
vivors' offspring.
Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo is Training Analyst of the Venezuelan Psy-
choanalytic Society and author of the books Self-Envy: Therapy
and the Divided Internal World, and God Is a Woman.
Anna Potamianou has a Ph.D. in psychology. She is Training
Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and of the Hellenic
Provisional Psychoanalytic Society and has recently been
elected as President of the Hellenic Provisional Psychoanalytic
Society. She has published six books and three monographs and
has participated in eleven collective publications. She is also a
Member of the Psychosomatic Institute of Paris.
Andreas Rabavilas is Professor of Psychiatry at the Athens Uni-
versity Medical School Department of Psychiatry. He has pub-
lished more than 150 scientific papers and is co-editor of the
books The Treatment of Phobic and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders;
Schizophrenia: Recent Biosocial Developments; Psychiatry: A Word
Perspective; and Current Trends in European Psychotherapy.
Grigoris Vuslamatzis is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and
teaches psychoanalytic theory and therapy at the Department
of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School and at the Hel-
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
lenic society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He has recently
been elected as President of the Hellenic Society of Psychoana-
lytic Psychotherapy. He has published nearly a hundred scien-
tific articles and is co-editor of the books Countertransference:
Theory, Technique, Teaching and Current Trends in Eurupeun Psy-
chothwupy and author of The Object of Narcissus (in Greek).