Alice A Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice A Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 2308 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA ‐ |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5097-4952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Out of the Nest: The Poetry of Meena Alexander and Mei‐Mei Berssenbrugge
Meena Alexander and Mei‐Mei Berssenbrugge are two poets who experienced dislocation and immigration. The loss of their first language seems reflected in their work. Intersecting with their maternal ties, the lost object and a lost language may later have become foci of mourning and also generative forces within their writing. The author considers their creativity in the shadow of absence and trauma of dislocation. In different ways for each, thei…
Ever Ending
Reflections on the process of psychoanalytic termination led to reexamination of a long-term case of a person who experienced major dissociation in response to severe neglect in infancy and beyond. Her need to return one year after our ending led to a reconsideration of what ending is possible for our more traumatized patients. This essay also considers larger themes of aging, dying, and departure as they relate to increased access to aliveness i…
Topographies: Psychic Landscapes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer
Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer, two stellar poets of their generation, each work with a tacit, topographical model of the relation of consciousness to the unconscious. Comparing and contrasting several of Heaney’s poems to those of Tranströmer, the essay considers how each poet makes use of his topography. In Heaney’s poems, there is an emphasis on plunging into the depths. In Tranströmer’s work, dream and waking states infuse each other to …
Now We're Out of Time: Thoughts on Endings in Poetry and Psychoanalysis
Through readings of several poems, the essay considers endings in poetry and psychoanalysis as processes of a change of state, a compressed phase in which consciousness transforms as one begins to comprehend the shift from a sense of infinite time to finite. With the recognition of death and loss, one can open up a wider consciousness of what it means to be human. Within this internal change of state, recognition of transience—of time as limited …
The case of Stevie
(2007). The case of Stevie. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Generating Words: One Approach to Teaching Clinical Writing
Language is our means of reaching our patients and our means of describing the process of analysis to others. The task of the case history is to show the evolution of consciousness in both analyst and patient. It will be more effective if written in a lively engaging way. The author describes one method of teaching clinical writing, introducing candidates to techniques of fiction writing and poetry. Her class has involved both focused reading and…
Linking Lost Voices: Reading 'The Dead
The author presents an individual reading of James Joyce's short story. 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners'. Language evokes subjective responses and associations that become part of the depth of experience one finds in a book. The author describes how uses of language give the reader a sense of sharing the main character's experience. She focuses on nodal moments in the story, in which external and internal worlds intersect. Images focused on include th…
Experiencing Language: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Psychoanalysis
The author uses her experiences as a poet and as a psychoanalyst to compare the two. She discusses poems by James Merrill, Philip Larkin, and Theodore Roethke in order to consider how the analyst listens, how the poet writes, how each listens to what is unsaid in the music of language. Rhythm, meter, and the sounds of words constitute this music. Sound and image are means by which language bypasses logic and touches us. Considering how a poem has…
Response from Dr. Himmelstein, et al
Response from Dr. Himmelstein, et al David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, and Alice A. Jones David K. Parkinson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.12.1410 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The case of Stevie
(2007). The case of Stevie. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Experiencing Language: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Psychoanalysis
The author uses her experiences as a poet and as a psychoanalyst to compare the two. She discusses poems by James Merrill, Philip Larkin, and Theodore Roethke in order to consider how the analyst listens, how the poet writes, how each listens to what is unsaid in the music of language. Rhythm, meter, and the sounds of words constitute this music. Sound and image are means by which language bypasses logic and touches us. Considering how a poem has…
Topographies: Psychic Landscapes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer
Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer, two stellar poets of their generation, each work with a tacit, topographical model of the relation of consciousness to the unconscious. Comparing and contrasting several of Heaney’s poems to those of Tranströmer, the essay considers how each poet makes use of his topography. In Heaney’s poems, there is an emphasis on plunging into the depths. In Tranströmer’s work, dream and waking states infuse each other to …
Now We're Out of Time: Thoughts on Endings in Poetry and Psychoanalysis
Through readings of several poems, the essay considers endings in poetry and psychoanalysis as processes of a change of state, a compressed phase in which consciousness transforms as one begins to comprehend the shift from a sense of infinite time to finite. With the recognition of death and loss, one can open up a wider consciousness of what it means to be human. Within this internal change of state, recognition of transience—of time as limited …
Generating Words: One Approach to Teaching Clinical Writing
Language is our means of reaching our patients and our means of describing the process of analysis to others. The task of the case history is to show the evolution of consciousness in both analyst and patient. It will be more effective if written in a lively engaging way. The author describes one method of teaching clinical writing, introducing candidates to techniques of fiction writing and poetry. Her class has involved both focused reading and…
Linking Lost Voices: Reading 'The Dead
The author presents an individual reading of James Joyce's short story. 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners'. Language evokes subjective responses and associations that become part of the depth of experience one finds in a book. The author describes how uses of language give the reader a sense of sharing the main character's experience. She focuses on nodal moments in the story, in which external and internal worlds intersect. Images focused on include th…
Response from Dr. Himmelstein, et al
Response from Dr. Himmelstein, et al David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, and Alice A. Jones David K. Parkinson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.12.1410 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Experiencing Language: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Psychoanalysis
The author uses her experiences as a poet and as a psychoanalyst to compare the two. She discusses poems by James Merrill, Philip Larkin, and Theodore Roethke in order to consider how the analyst listens, how the poet writes, how each listens to what is unsaid in the music of language. Rhythm, meter, and the sounds of words constitute this music. Sound and image are means by which language bypasses logic and touches us. Considering how a poem has…
Linking Lost Voices: Reading 'The Dead
The author presents an individual reading of James Joyce's short story. 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners'. Language evokes subjective responses and associations that become part of the depth of experience one finds in a book. The author describes how uses of language give the reader a sense of sharing the main character's experience. She focuses on nodal moments in the story, in which external and internal worlds intersect. Images focused on include th…
Generating Words: One Approach to Teaching Clinical Writing
Language is our means of reaching our patients and our means of describing the process of analysis to others. The task of the case history is to show the evolution of consciousness in both analyst and patient. It will be more effective if written in a lively engaging way. The author describes one method of teaching clinical writing, introducing candidates to techniques of fiction writing and poetry. Her class has involved both focused reading and…
The case of Stevie
(2007). The case of Stevie. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Now We're Out of Time: Thoughts on Endings in Poetry and Psychoanalysis
Through readings of several poems, the essay considers endings in poetry and psychoanalysis as processes of a change of state, a compressed phase in which consciousness transforms as one begins to comprehend the shift from a sense of infinite time to finite. With the recognition of death and loss, one can open up a wider consciousness of what it means to be human. Within this internal change of state, recognition of transience—of time as limited …
Topographies: Psychic Landscapes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer
Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer, two stellar poets of their generation, each work with a tacit, topographical model of the relation of consciousness to the unconscious. Comparing and contrasting several of Heaney’s poems to those of Tranströmer, the essay considers how each poet makes use of his topography. In Heaney’s poems, there is an emphasis on plunging into the depths. In Tranströmer’s work, dream and waking states infuse each other to …
Ever Ending
Reflections on the process of psychoanalytic termination led to reexamination of a long-term case of a person who experienced major dissociation in response to severe neglect in infancy and beyond. Her need to return one year after our ending led to a reconsideration of what ending is possible for our more traumatized patients. This essay also considers larger themes of aging, dying, and departure as they relate to increased access to aliveness i…
Out of the Nest: The Poetry of Meena Alexander and Mei‐Mei Berssenbrugge
Meena Alexander and Mei‐Mei Berssenbrugge are two poets who experienced dislocation and immigration. The loss of their first language seems reflected in their work. Intersecting with their maternal ties, the lost object and a lost language may later have become foci of mourning and also generative forces within their writing. The author considers their creativity in the shadow of absence and trauma of dislocation. In different ways for each, thei…
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