I very much appreciate this article - one suggestion is to differentiate the stances, attitudes, and conventions of adult psychoanalysis from those of child analysis, where the complemental series and knowledge of the inextricable interweaving of internal and external has never faded out. A life-cycle psychoanalysis would take better account of this reality.
This piece is a great reminder of the subtle ways we turn to the internal before the external reality of "what happened" is elaborated and really known, both in our clinical dyads and in the way we interact with the world as analysts. Thanks Dr. S.
I very much appreciate this article - one suggestion is to differentiate the stances, attitudes, and conventions of adult psychoanalysis from those of child analysis, where the complemental series and knowledge of the inextricable interweaving of internal and external has never faded out. A life-cycle psychoanalysis would take better account of this reality.
This piece is a great reminder of the subtle ways we turn to the internal before the external reality of "what happened" is elaborated and really known, both in our clinical dyads and in the way we interact with the world as analysts. Thanks Dr. S.