Jill Savege Scharff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4468059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Savege Scharff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill Savege |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharff |
| SIGNATURE | SCHARFF J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Psychotherapy Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3805-6715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The two-page paper writing task
The author describes the use of the two-page paper task, a recurrent simple writing task for candidates to express their integration of learning after each semester of psychoanalytic education. Seven rising third-year candidates share their papers in full so that readers can assess the value of the task as a measure of the candidates’ integration of theory and technique and development of analytic sensibility and identity at the mid-point of thei…
Empty Heart Disease
Drawing on 15 years of experience teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy primarily from an object relations perspective to Chinese psychotherapists onsite and online, the authors present their learning about Chinese culture, social history, and philosophy, and the Chinese way of communicating about emotional experience. Their essay is imbued with the Chinese use of metaphor and psychosomatic symbolization, particularly involving the heart. Th…
Play, Containment, and Insights from Child Analysis
Refinding the Ghosts in the Nursery
Transference-Countertransference, Nonverbal Communication, and Interpretation in Child Analysis
The use of a simple writing task to enhance psychoanalytic education
The authors describe a simple recurrent writing task called the “Two Page Paper Exercise,” designed to enhance candidates’ learning of analytic theory and technique. They set this task in the context of other analytic institutes’ writing programs and show that this exercise is unique. Their educational philosophy is that, as candidates confront multiple perspectives in contemporary psychoanalysis, this writing task develops their ability to conce…
Change across a completed analysis assessed using a modified Three-Level Model
The authors present their design for a clinical teaching exercise to study transformation in psychoanalysis. They chose a completed analysis from which to select the sessions retrospectively so that the clinical review exercise would not influence ongoing analytic process. The co-authors selected three tranches of clinical material, a few years apart, to be presented by the analyst. They studied the material with colleagues in the impressionistic…
Group affective learning in training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper describes The Group Affective Model, a method for teaching psychoanalytic concepts and their clinical application, using multi-channel teaching, process and review in group settings, and learning from experience in an open systems learning community for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This innovation arose in response to criticism of existing methods in psychoanalytic education that have subordinated the primary educational task t…
Case study
The author presents a case study of a hemophiliac boy in four-times-a-week analysis from the age of four to six and a half years. An extensive narrative of various phases of the analysis including the termination provides the reader access to the material for discussion of therapeutic action. Her analytic technique is based on a developmental point of view and illustrates the use of limits, play, and interpretation based on countertransference. S…
Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Technology-Assisted Psychoanalysis
Teleanalysis—remote psychoanalysis by telephone, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), or videoteleconference (VTC)—has been thought of as a distortion of the frame that cannot support authentic analytic process. Yet it can augment continuity, permit optimum frequency of analytic sessions for in-depth analytic work, and enable outreach to analysands in areas far from specialized psychoanalytic centers. Theoretical arguments against teleanalysis ar…
On
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Clinical issues in analyses over the telephone and the internet
There is professional consensus that teleanalysis, the practice of psychoanalysis conducted remotely using the telephone and the Internet, is increasing in response to more mobility in the population. But there is controversy as to whether the use of technology leads to a dilution of analysis or to adaptive innovation that is clinically effective and true to the tenets of psychoanalysis. The author reviews the psychoanalytic literature and shows …
Telephone analysis
On Writing From Clinical Experience
Papers that present the life of the analytic session offer material through which analysts can together study analytic process and therapeutic action and arrive at consensus on how to improve psychoanalytic theory and practice. But some analysts have been deterred from publishing clinical material of that kind because of concerns about preserving confidentiality, protecting the therapeutic relationship, reporting accurately, being scrutinized, wo…
Clinical issues in analyses over the telephone and the internet
There is professional consensus that teleanalysis, the practice of psychoanalysis conducted remotely using the telephone and the Internet, is increasing in response to more mobility in the population. But there is controversy as to whether the use of technology leads to a dilution of analysis or to adaptive innovation that is clinically effective and true to the tenets of psychoanalysis. The author reviews the psychoanalytic literature and shows …
Telephone analysis
Technology-Assisted Psychoanalysis
Teleanalysis—remote psychoanalysis by telephone, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), or videoteleconference (VTC)—has been thought of as a distortion of the frame that cannot support authentic analytic process. Yet it can augment continuity, permit optimum frequency of analytic sessions for in-depth analytic work, and enable outreach to analysands in areas far from specialized psychoanalytic centers. Theoretical arguments against teleanalysis ar…
On Writing From Clinical Experience
Papers that present the life of the analytic session offer material through which analysts can together study analytic process and therapeutic action and arrive at consensus on how to improve psychoanalytic theory and practice. But some analysts have been deterred from publishing clinical material of that kind because of concerns about preserving confidentiality, protecting the therapeutic relationship, reporting accurately, being scrutinized, wo…
Play, Containment, and Insights from Child Analysis
Group affective learning in training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper describes The Group Affective Model, a method for teaching psychoanalytic concepts and their clinical application, using multi-channel teaching, process and review in group settings, and learning from experience in an open systems learning community for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This innovation arose in response to criticism of existing methods in psychoanalytic education that have subordinated the primary educational task t…
On
Dear Editor,It is useful to have updated information on communications technology drawn from very recent sources and published in security studies literature that most analysts do not read. I accep
On Writing From Clinical Experience
Papers that present the life of the analytic session offer material through which analysts can together study analytic process and therapeutic action and arrive at consensus on how to improve psychoanalytic theory and practice. But some analysts have been deterred from publishing clinical material of that kind because of concerns about preserving confidentiality, protecting the therapeutic relationship, reporting accurately, being scrutinized, wo…
Telephone analysis
On
Dear Editor,It is useful to have updated information on communications technology drawn from very recent sources and published in security studies literature that most analysts do not read. I accep
Clinical issues in analyses over the telephone and the internet
There is professional consensus that teleanalysis, the practice of psychoanalysis conducted remotely using the telephone and the Internet, is increasing in response to more mobility in the population. But there is controversy as to whether the use of technology leads to a dilution of analysis or to adaptive innovation that is clinically effective and true to the tenets of psychoanalysis. The author reviews the psychoanalytic literature and shows …
Technology-Assisted Psychoanalysis
Teleanalysis—remote psychoanalysis by telephone, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), or videoteleconference (VTC)—has been thought of as a distortion of the frame that cannot support authentic analytic process. Yet it can augment continuity, permit optimum frequency of analytic sessions for in-depth analytic work, and enable outreach to analysands in areas far from specialized psychoanalytic centers. Theoretical arguments against teleanalysis ar…
Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Case study
The author presents a case study of a hemophiliac boy in four-times-a-week analysis from the age of four to six and a half years. An extensive narrative of various phases of the analysis including the termination provides the reader access to the material for discussion of therapeutic action. Her analytic technique is based on a developmental point of view and illustrates the use of limits, play, and interpretation based on countertransference. S…
Group affective learning in training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper describes The Group Affective Model, a method for teaching psychoanalytic concepts and their clinical application, using multi-channel teaching, process and review in group settings, and learning from experience in an open systems learning community for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This innovation arose in response to criticism of existing methods in psychoanalytic education that have subordinated the primary educational task t…
The use of a simple writing task to enhance psychoanalytic education
The authors describe a simple recurrent writing task called the “Two Page Paper Exercise,” designed to enhance candidates’ learning of analytic theory and technique. They set this task in the context of other analytic institutes’ writing programs and show that this exercise is unique. Their educational philosophy is that, as candidates confront multiple perspectives in contemporary psychoanalysis, this writing task develops their ability to conce…
Change across a completed analysis assessed using a modified Three-Level Model
The authors present their design for a clinical teaching exercise to study transformation in psychoanalysis. They chose a completed analysis from which to select the sessions retrospectively so that the clinical review exercise would not influence ongoing analytic process. The co-authors selected three tranches of clinical material, a few years apart, to be presented by the analyst. They studied the material with colleagues in the impressionistic…
The two-page paper writing task
The author describes the use of the two-page paper task, a recurrent simple writing task for candidates to express their integration of learning after each semester of psychoanalytic education. Seven rising third-year candidates share their papers in full so that readers can assess the value of the task as a measure of the candidates’ integration of theory and technique and development of analytic sensibility and identity at the mid-point of thei…
Empty Heart Disease
Drawing on 15 years of experience teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy primarily from an object relations perspective to Chinese psychotherapists onsite and online, the authors present their learning about Chinese culture, social history, and philosophy, and the Chinese way of communicating about emotional experience. Their essay is imbued with the Chinese use of metaphor and psychosomatic symbolization, particularly involving the heart. Th…
Play, Containment, and Insights from Child Analysis
Refinding the Ghosts in the Nursery
Transference-Countertransference, Nonverbal Communication, and Interpretation in Child Analysis
Psychoanalysis (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (12 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (5 works) · Countertransference (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)