Zenobia Grusky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zenobia Grusky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zenobia |
| FAMILY NAME | Grusky |
| SIGNATURE | GRUSKY Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1939 Divisadero Street Suite 4 San Francisco, CA 94115 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chemistry and Containing
Certain patients overwhelm the analyst's capacity to contain both the patient and the analyst's own unbearable feelings. Though some such failures of containing may lead fairly quickly to self-correction and others to clinical impasse, our focus is on an in-between state in which the analyst's ability to tolerate his inevitable failures and gradually to (re)establish his containing capacities through difficult self-analytic work can lead to signi…
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Conviction and Interpretation
A patient who was developing her career as a writer evolved a unique process of reading her fiction aloud during analytic sessions. This paper explores this unconventional approach and the inevitable illusions, fantasies, meaningful explanations, and creative fictions that form a part of every technical/theoretical choice. How do analysts reach an integrated, rather than a theory-led, sense of conviction about a theoretical/technical choice? The …
Conviction and Conversion
This paper is an attempt to understand the origin of the analyst's conviction about both the patient's analyzability and the psychoanalytic endeavor. Clinical material will be used to illustrate the way that the intensity of the analyst's conviction is or isn't noticed or interpreted, by both patient and analyst. The primary hypothesis to be proposed is that the analyst's awareness of the transmission of conviction during conversion (or evaluatio…
Conviction and Conversion
This paper is an attempt to understand the origin of the analyst's conviction about both the patient's analyzability and the psychoanalytic endeavor. Clinical material will be used to illustrate the way that the intensity of the analyst's conviction is or isn't noticed or interpreted, by both patient and analyst. The primary hypothesis to be proposed is that the analyst's awareness of the transmission of conviction during conversion (or evaluatio…
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Chemistry and Containing
Certain patients overwhelm the analyst's capacity to contain both the patient and the analyst's own unbearable feelings. Though some such failures of containing may lead fairly quickly to self-correction and others to clinical impasse, our focus is on an in-between state in which the analyst's ability to tolerate his inevitable failures and gradually to (re)establish his containing capacities through difficult self-analytic work can lead to signi…
Conviction and Interpretation
A patient who was developing her career as a writer evolved a unique process of reading her fiction aloud during analytic sessions. This paper explores this unconventional approach and the inevitable illusions, fantasies, meaningful explanations, and creative fictions that form a part of every technical/theoretical choice. How do analysts reach an integrated, rather than a theory-led, sense of conviction about a theoretical/technical choice? The …
Conviction and Conversion
This paper is an attempt to understand the origin of the analyst's conviction about both the patient's analyzability and the psychoanalytic endeavor. Clinical material will be used to illustrate the way that the intensity of the analyst's conviction is or isn't noticed or interpreted, by both patient and analyst. The primary hypothesis to be proposed is that the analyst's awareness of the transmission of conviction during conversion (or evaluatio…
Conviction and Interpretation
A patient who was developing her career as a writer evolved a unique process of reading her fiction aloud during analytic sessions. This paper explores this unconventional approach and the inevitable illusions, fantasies, meaningful explanations, and creative fictions that form a part of every technical/theoretical choice. How do analysts reach an integrated, rather than a theory-led, sense of conviction about a theoretical/technical choice? The …
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Chemistry and Containing
Certain patients overwhelm the analyst's capacity to contain both the patient and the analyst's own unbearable feelings. Though some such failures of containing may lead fairly quickly to self-correction and others to clinical impasse, our focus is on an in-between state in which the analyst's ability to tolerate his inevitable failures and gradually to (re)establish his containing capacities through difficult self-analytic work can lead to signi…
Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Conviction (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)