Marilyn Charles
Biographic Data
| ID | 3702877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn Charles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Charles |
| SIGNATURE | CHARLES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austen Riggs Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1693-7207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Things that go bump: Encounters with the real on screen
Depression, personality disorders, and metacognition: Intersections between psychoanalysis, research, and the clinic
Re-Finding the Feminine: Forgotten Threads of Meaning in Psychoanalysis
Authoritarianism: Promise and peril: a view from the (un)United States
Somatization and symbolization
Tyranny of the shoulds: The Press Towards Conformity
Canaries in the Mind: Reflections on Paul Lippmann and the World of Dreams
The Haunting of Hill House: Psyche, soma, and destiny
Childhood and memory: The river running through us
Identity forms in relation to the interpersonal narratives through which our histories are constructed. Psychoanalysis affords opportunities to reconsider important relationships from different vantage points and to recognise how these relationships have informed meanings and being. Entering psychoanalysis invites direct engagement with this universe of childhood, memory, meanings and also the gaps left by trauma and neglect. In this article, I c…
Meaning, metaphor, and metabolization: The case of eating disorders
What Can a Woman Know? Subjectification, Desire, Perversion, and Possibility
Creative works allow a discourse that can be collectively subjective, rather than denuding experienced meanings through attempts at objectification. Jennifer Fox’s film The Tale offers an encounter with the Real as informed by an Imaginary that shifts and transforms over time. She shows the objectification of one woman’s experience by tracing her ambivalent efforts to subjectify her own story. Asserting her own desire becomes possible as she reco…
Mythological Bridge Between Intergenerational Transmission of Unmourned Loss and Addiction
In a study looking at severe substance abuse in an inpatient clinic, an indirect relationship was found between narcissistic loss in substance abusers and the trauma that has not yet been mourned by their ancestors or parents. The authors explore these links using psychoanalytic theory, Greek mythology, and a case study to investigate how these concepts are implicated in the histories of those who struggle with drug addiction. Psychoanalysis has …
The Dream and the Image: Creative Transformations in Psychoanalytic Space
Aggressive Enactments: Containing the “No” in Clinical Work With Survivors of Abuse
Abjection, identity and the enigmatic message: Embodied meanings and social constructions
Identity is built upon the early interactions with caretakers through whom we internalize a felt-sense of what it means to be ourselves, including values and judgments that have been passed along the generations. Psychoanalytic theory and the attachment literature help us to understand some of the more subversive elements of that transmission process, ways in which unprocessed trauma and unresolved mourning provides a vehicle for passing along po…
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness
Trauma, identity, and social justice
The promise of love revisited: Healing ruptures through recognition
Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges
Race and Recognition: The Time of Our Singing
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
Now, what? Standing in one’s generation, taking consultation
I situate myself in the context of an evolving conversation in relation to what it means to be a woman. In my mother’s generation, the first wave of feminism forced a collision between traditional western female values grounded in a subversive authority and the desire to emerge from that type of repressive position. From the standpoint of my daughter’s generation, I may be tilting at windmills, trying to find my own authority in relation to a pat…
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
Webster's volume, The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, is a meditation that invites the reader to delve deeply alongside her into the layers of meaning made manifest through the psychoanalytic inq
Klein and Lacan Meet 21st Century Schizoid Man: Fairy Stories for the Modern Era
Closing the gap: Narrating the prose of severe psychic suffering
The Placement of Black Children with Permanent New Families
In 1987 a survey was conducted of eleven hundred and sixty-five children with ‘special needs’ placed by the major voluntary adoption agencies with permanent new families between 1980 and 1984 (Thoburn & Rowe, 1988; Fratter et al, 1991). Among those placed were 241 black children and children from other minority ethnic groups. Marilyn Charles, Stephen Rashid and June Thoburn report on an exploratory study undertaken in 1991 and 1992 of this cohort…
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
Webster's volume, The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, is a meditation that invites the reader to delve deeply alongside her into the layers of meaning made manifest through the psychoanalytic inq
Closing the gap: Narrating the prose of severe psychic suffering
Introduction to special issue on psychosis
The complex subject of psychosis
The Piggle: Confrontations With Nonexistence in Childhood
The author interweaves pieces from D. W. Winnicott's 'The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl' with her own experiences and case material, to explore how confrontations with existence/non-existence can become terrifying realities that overwhelm the child's resources. In the pages of 'The Piggle', we can see a young child 'playing' with the unfathomable notions of beginnings and endings in the wake of the birth of a…
Authoritarianism: Promise and peril: a view from the (un)United States
Abjection, identity and the enigmatic message: Embodied meanings and social constructions
Identity is built upon the early interactions with caretakers through whom we internalize a felt-sense of what it means to be ourselves, including values and judgments that have been passed along the generations. Psychoanalytic theory and the attachment literature help us to understand some of the more subversive elements of that transmission process, ways in which unprocessed trauma and unresolved mourning provides a vehicle for passing along po…
Trauma, identity, and social justice
What does a woman want
Nonphysical Touch: Modes of Containment and Communication Within the Analytic Process
Psychoanalysis has struggled with issues of touching and being touched, and of holding and being held, since Freud's early essays toward "taking hold" of elusive thoughts through various means. More recently, observations of early dyadic interchanges between caretaker and child have illuminated how facets of the analytic process, such as the quality of gaze, tone, or empathic resonance, affect feelings of "being held" within the object world. The…
The Placement of Black Children with Permanent New Families
In 1987 a survey was conducted of eleven hundred and sixty-five children with ‘special needs’ placed by the major voluntary adoption agencies with permanent new families between 1980 and 1984 (Thoburn & Rowe, 1988; Fratter et al, 1991). Among those placed were 241 black children and children from other minority ethnic groups. Marilyn Charles, Stephen Rashid and June Thoburn report on an exploratory study undertaken in 1991 and 1992 of this cohort…
The promise of love: A view among women.
The promise of love: A view among women
The Piggle: Confrontations With Nonexistence in Childhood
The author interweaves pieces from D. W. Winnicott's 'The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl' with her own experiences and case material, to explore how confrontations with existence/non-existence can become terrifying realities that overwhelm the child's resources. In the pages of 'The Piggle', we can see a young child 'playing' with the unfathomable notions of beginnings and endings in the wake of the birth of a…
The language of the body: Allusions to self-experience in women's poetry.
Repetition of the remembered past: Patterns of separation-individuation in two generations of mothers and daughters.
Repetition of the remembered past: Patterns of separation–individuation in two generations of mothers and daughters
The language of the body: Allusions to self-experience in women's poetry
Nonphysical Touch: Modes of Containment and Communication Within the Analytic Process
Psychoanalysis has struggled with issues of touching and being touched, and of holding and being held, since Freud's early essays toward "taking hold" of elusive thoughts through various means. More recently, observations of early dyadic interchanges between caretaker and child have illuminated how facets of the analytic process, such as the quality of gaze, tone, or empathic resonance, affect feelings of "being held" within the object world. The…
Bion's Grid: A Tool for Transformation
The author explicates the principles underlying Bion's "Grid" in a way that makes them useful for the clinician. The grid represents an attempt to provide a tool by which we might better understand the abstract rules and principles that facilitate understanding in the analytic process. Bion believed that content often obscures meaning unless we can move beyond the ostensible meaning in our attempts to understand the complexity of a statement and …
Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience
Learning from Experience: A Guidebook for Clinicians
An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patients's experience in useful and progressively deeper ways. In an effort to aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to "know thyself," Marilyn Charles turns to key ideas that have facilitated her own clinical work with difficult patients. Concepts such as "containe…
Sibling loss and attachment style: An exploratory study
On Dreams: Discussion of Paul Lippmann's Paper “The Canary in the Mind”1
History beyond trauma: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one cannot stay silent
James S. Grotstein: A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
The Masquerade, The Veil, and The Phallic Mask: Commentary
Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh
Castration and intolerance
Working with trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan
What does a woman want
Neither victim nor survivor: Thinking toward a new humanity
Tomkins e sedgwick: Comentário
Em contraste às tendências na pedagogia e na teoria crítica, Alcorn & Massé trazem o afeto para o centro de suas considerações sobre os fatores que facilitam e inibem a aprendizagem em sala de aula. Trazendo para suas discussões a teoria do afeto de Tomkins e a leitura de Sedgwick sobre Tomkins, cada um enfatiza maneiras através das quais o afeto entra em sala. Eles também nos convidam a considerar alguns dos sérios riscos de se falhar ao reconhe…
Marion Milner: A Life of One's Own; An Experiment in Leisure; On Not Being Able to Paint; The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment; Eternity's Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a…
Introduction to special issue on psychosis
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