Jody Messler Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jody Messler Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jody Messler |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Discussion of Danielle Novack’s “Analytic Fostering”
The following discussion of Danielle Novack’s paper focuses on the particular issues involved in treating a seriously neglected patient. An attempt is made to conceptualize “negative therapeutic reaction” from a relational, object relations perspective; highlighting the delicate balance between nurturance and facilitated mourning. The particular transference-countertransference positions are described
The Horsehead and the Man of Steel
Reawakening Desire
As psychoanalysts we have grown used to thinking of our patient’s problems as rooted in past relationships and attachment patterns. We try and focus on the conflictual and traumatic events of our patient’s formative years and relate them to the current difficulties that bring them into treatment with us. However, where severe or recurrent trauma has led to a sense of dread and hopelessness with regard to the future, we also confront the death of …
Discussion of David Levit’s “Somatic Experiencing”
The following is a discussion of David Levitt’s paper “Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding for Trauma and Catastrophic Dissociation Contending with the Flood and Fog.” The discussion focuses on three major points: (1) the emphasis on psychophysiological hyperarousal and containment techniques in the treatment of traumatized adults has been a significant part of the relational trauma literature for at least thirty years. This au…
The Forgiver and the Forgiven
The following discussion of Diane Barclay’s paper (this issue) focuses on the meaning of forgiveness when viewed through the lens of a multiple self tate model of the mind. The discussion also emphasizes the psychoanalytic centrality of self-forgiveness as a counterpoint to the question of whether one can forgive the other
The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone)
This paper explores the psychoanalyst's dilemmas in treating a man who came for analysis as a self-identified compulsive liar. The decision as to whether or not to treat this man, and how to do so without getting caught up in a web of deceit and manipulation, raises issues about the nature of unconscious fantasy and its relationship to psychic truth. Therapeutic action as it involves the activation of multiple internal self-other configurations a…
Response to Jon Mills
Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil
What allows us to explain the repetitive cycles of self-destructive, self-defeating behavior that we all struggle to help patients overcome? What explains the malignancy that can infuse certain transference—countertransference relationships, often suddenly and without warning? Why do some patients come to hate us despite our best efforts? Why do we come to hate some of them? Perhaps more to the point of this paper, why do we come to hate that ver…
Dialogues on Sexuality In Development and Treatment
The evolution of a relational perspective has done much to change psychoanalytic thinking about the processes of mutual inf luence in human relating, including that between parent and child, patient and analyst. Beginning with excerpts from Oxenhandler’s recent book, The Eros of Parenthood, this panel explores the dynamics of sexual experiencing and sexual inf luence between parents and children and, in parallel fashion, between analysts and pati…
Erotic Overstimulation and The Co-Construction of Sexual Meanings in Transference-Countertransference Experience
This paper attempts to explore the ways in which Western child-rearing practices do not provide an early interpersonal experience in which infantile, sexual, or sensual-erotic experience is held, contained, and given meaning within a safe parent-child dyad. It is the author's basic premise that this normative developmental process fosters a dissociation of unformulated aspects of early sexual and sensual-erotic experience, leaving much of the exp…
Getting Cold Feet, Defining “Safe-Enough” Borders
This paper attempts to explore the fate of the analyst's multiple self/other organizations during times of heightened countertransferential enactment. It is suggested that such countertransference activity involves the "de-homogenization" of otherwise indecipherably integrated self/other constellations, evoked independently or in response to, but always in interaction with, the patient's own unique organization of multiple centers of psychic awar…
Erotic Overstimulation and The Co-Construction of Sexual Meanings in Transference-Countertransference Experience
This paper attempts to explore the ways in which Western child-rearing practices do not provide an early interpersonal experience in which infantile, sexual, or sensual-erotic experience is held, contained, and given meaning within a safe parent-child dyad. It is the author's basic premise that this normative developmental process fosters a dissociation of unformulated aspects of early sexual and sensual-erotic experience, leaving much of the exp…
Getting Cold Feet, Defining “Safe-Enough” Borders
This paper attempts to explore the fate of the analyst's multiple self/other organizations during times of heightened countertransferential enactment. It is suggested that such countertransference activity involves the "de-homogenization" of otherwise indecipherably integrated self/other constellations, evoked independently or in response to, but always in interaction with, the patient's own unique organization of multiple centers of psychic awar…
The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone)
This paper explores the psychoanalyst's dilemmas in treating a man who came for analysis as a self-identified compulsive liar. The decision as to whether or not to treat this man, and how to do so without getting caught up in a web of deceit and manipulation, raises issues about the nature of unconscious fantasy and its relationship to psychic truth. Therapeutic action as it involves the activation of multiple internal self-other configurations a…
Dialogues on Sexuality In Development and Treatment
The evolution of a relational perspective has done much to change psychoanalytic thinking about the processes of mutual inf luence in human relating, including that between parent and child, patient and analyst. Beginning with excerpts from Oxenhandler’s recent book, The Eros of Parenthood, this panel explores the dynamics of sexual experiencing and sexual inf luence between parents and children and, in parallel fashion, between analysts and pati…
Getting Cold Feet, Defining “Safe-Enough” Borders
This paper attempts to explore the fate of the analyst's multiple self/other organizations during times of heightened countertransferential enactment. It is suggested that such countertransference activity involves the "de-homogenization" of otherwise indecipherably integrated self/other constellations, evoked independently or in response to, but always in interaction with, the patient's own unique organization of multiple centers of psychic awar…
Erotic Overstimulation and The Co-Construction of Sexual Meanings in Transference-Countertransference Experience
This paper attempts to explore the ways in which Western child-rearing practices do not provide an early interpersonal experience in which infantile, sexual, or sensual-erotic experience is held, contained, and given meaning within a safe parent-child dyad. It is the author's basic premise that this normative developmental process fosters a dissociation of unformulated aspects of early sexual and sensual-erotic experience, leaving much of the exp…
Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil
What allows us to explain the repetitive cycles of self-destructive, self-defeating behavior that we all struggle to help patients overcome? What explains the malignancy that can infuse certain transference—countertransference relationships, often suddenly and without warning? Why do some patients come to hate us despite our best efforts? Why do we come to hate some of them? Perhaps more to the point of this paper, why do we come to hate that ver…
Dialogues on Sexuality In Development and Treatment
The evolution of a relational perspective has done much to change psychoanalytic thinking about the processes of mutual inf luence in human relating, including that between parent and child, patient and analyst. Beginning with excerpts from Oxenhandler’s recent book, The Eros of Parenthood, this panel explores the dynamics of sexual experiencing and sexual inf luence between parents and children and, in parallel fashion, between analysts and pati…
Response to Jon Mills
The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone)
This paper explores the psychoanalyst's dilemmas in treating a man who came for analysis as a self-identified compulsive liar. The decision as to whether or not to treat this man, and how to do so without getting caught up in a web of deceit and manipulation, raises issues about the nature of unconscious fantasy and its relationship to psychic truth. Therapeutic action as it involves the activation of multiple internal self-other configurations a…
The Forgiver and the Forgiven
The following discussion of Diane Barclay’s paper (this issue) focuses on the meaning of forgiveness when viewed through the lens of a multiple self tate model of the mind. The discussion also emphasizes the psychoanalytic centrality of self-forgiveness as a counterpoint to the question of whether one can forgive the other
Discussion of David Levit’s “Somatic Experiencing”
The following is a discussion of David Levitt’s paper “Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding for Trauma and Catastrophic Dissociation Contending with the Flood and Fog.” The discussion focuses on three major points: (1) the emphasis on psychophysiological hyperarousal and containment techniques in the treatment of traumatized adults has been a significant part of the relational trauma literature for at least thirty years. This au…
Reawakening Desire
As psychoanalysts we have grown used to thinking of our patient’s problems as rooted in past relationships and attachment patterns. We try and focus on the conflictual and traumatic events of our patient’s formative years and relate them to the current difficulties that bring them into treatment with us. However, where severe or recurrent trauma has led to a sense of dread and hopelessness with regard to the future, we also confront the death of …
The Horsehead and the Man of Steel
Discussion of Danielle Novack’s “Analytic Fostering”
The following discussion of Danielle Novack’s paper focuses on the particular issues involved in treating a seriously neglected patient. An attempt is made to conceptualize “negative therapeutic reaction” from a relational, object relations perspective; highlighting the delicate balance between nurturance and facilitated mourning. The particular transference-countertransference positions are described
Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Countertransference (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works)