Donald Kalsched
Biographic Data
| ID | 4500110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Kalsched |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalsched |
| SIGNATURE | KALSCHED D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Fe USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-9651-8468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War in the Consulting Room
This paper presents a classic case of “enactment” between the author and his patient in which unknown, unformulated, and dissociated shame in both participants entered the analytic field, colouring it with defensive hatred and murderous wishes. Our mutual declaration of “war” on each other and the resulting destructive stalemate were eventually resolved as an imaginative process in the analyst helped open up underlying vulnerability in both parti…
On Terrible Loss, Grief, and Sorrow in Times of War
This essay serves as an introduction to a special issue featuring work by and about Ukrainian Jungian analysts conducting therapy under the conditions of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Their work with loss, grief, crises, and other life changes are highlighted. These articles underscore important aspects of analytic efforts that can be applied in such circumstances, as well as noting the limits of therapeutic work when both patients and analysts f…
Intersections of personal vs. collective trauma during the Covid‐19 pandemic
This paper explores how the deadly shadow of COVID-19 passing over the Earth constitutes a collective trauma that frequently opens up or 'triggers' un-remembered personal trauma, and it provides clinical examples of these intersections. The paper further explores how the human imagination, which we normally utilize to make meaning out of traumatic experience, can be hijacked by fear - leading to avoidance of suffering and to illusory formulations…
Trauma and daimonic reality in Ferenczi's later work
Jung and Ferenczi made independent discoveries of an 'archaic' (Jung) or 'primordial' (Ferenczi) layer of the psyche that shone through the 'basic fault' in the psyche opened by childhood trauma. This paper explores those parallels through an extended vignette of Ferenczi's work with Elizabeth Severn, known as 'R. N.' in the Clinical Diary. A remarkable inner object known as 'Orpha' appeared in the patient's trauma experience and saved a seed of …
Reply to Reid Anderson
The inner world of trauma
The 'rediscovery' of childhood physical and sexual abuse has again revived psychiatric interest in disorders which arise from traumatic experience. In The Inner World of Trauma Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy in people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. In order to examine the inner world, the author focuses on certain archaic and typical dream-images which occur in respon…
Intersections of personal vs. collective trauma during the Covid‐19 pandemic
This paper explores how the deadly shadow of COVID-19 passing over the Earth constitutes a collective trauma that frequently opens up or 'triggers' un-remembered personal trauma, and it provides clinical examples of these intersections. The paper further explores how the human imagination, which we normally utilize to make meaning out of traumatic experience, can be hijacked by fear - leading to avoidance of suffering and to illusory formulations…
Trauma and daimonic reality in Ferenczi's later work
Jung and Ferenczi made independent discoveries of an 'archaic' (Jung) or 'primordial' (Ferenczi) layer of the psyche that shone through the 'basic fault' in the psyche opened by childhood trauma. This paper explores those parallels through an extended vignette of Ferenczi's work with Elizabeth Severn, known as 'R. N.' in the Clinical Diary. A remarkable inner object known as 'Orpha' appeared in the patient's trauma experience and saved a seed of …
The inner world of trauma
The 'rediscovery' of childhood physical and sexual abuse has again revived psychiatric interest in disorders which arise from traumatic experience. In The Inner World of Trauma Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy in people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. In order to examine the inner world, the author focuses on certain archaic and typical dream-images which occur in respon…
Reply to Reid Anderson
Trauma and daimonic reality in Ferenczi's later work
Jung and Ferenczi made independent discoveries of an 'archaic' (Jung) or 'primordial' (Ferenczi) layer of the psyche that shone through the 'basic fault' in the psyche opened by childhood trauma. This paper explores those parallels through an extended vignette of Ferenczi's work with Elizabeth Severn, known as 'R. N.' in the Clinical Diary. A remarkable inner object known as 'Orpha' appeared in the patient's trauma experience and saved a seed of …
Intersections of personal vs. collective trauma during the Covid‐19 pandemic
This paper explores how the deadly shadow of COVID-19 passing over the Earth constitutes a collective trauma that frequently opens up or 'triggers' un-remembered personal trauma, and it provides clinical examples of these intersections. The paper further explores how the human imagination, which we normally utilize to make meaning out of traumatic experience, can be hijacked by fear - leading to avoidance of suffering and to illusory formulations…
On Terrible Loss, Grief, and Sorrow in Times of War
This essay serves as an introduction to a special issue featuring work by and about Ukrainian Jungian analysts conducting therapy under the conditions of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Their work with loss, grief, crises, and other life changes are highlighted. These articles underscore important aspects of analytic efforts that can be applied in such circumstances, as well as noting the limits of therapeutic work when both patients and analysts f…
War in the Consulting Room
This paper presents a classic case of “enactment” between the author and his patient in which unknown, unformulated, and dissociated shame in both participants entered the analytic field, colouring it with defensive hatred and murderous wishes. Our mutual declaration of “war” on each other and the resulting destructive stalemate were eventually resolved as an imaginative process in the analyst helped open up underlying vulnerability in both parti…
Psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)