Stephen D Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 2116 Sutter StSan Francisco, CA 94115USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On Terminating, Ending, and Not Ending
The author describes and reflects upon his clinical experiences with both mutually desired terminations and coerced endings. He addresses issues of technique, being real in termination and post-termination contact in addition to offering his perspectives on the role of theory in determining the phenomena of termination, retraumatizing aspects of termination, termination and death, and the question of whether analytic relationships could or should…
Dissociation
Psychic Song and Dance
The author offers observations on the nature of pathological dissociation, emphasizing the compartmentalization of unsymbolized affective experience. The irrelevance of personal agency and intentionality in the pathogenesis of dissociative psychopathology along with the deficiency in symbolization that is a sequela of trauma present special problems for traditional as well as for Relational approaches to technique. To a significant extent, "techn…
Journeys in Psychoanalysis
This volume consists of thirteen separate pieces, each of which (with one exception) has been previously published as a journal article or book chapter. It collects a lifetime of work and incorpora
Becoming Related
The author uses a "professional memoir," a story about his first experiences in clinical work, to illustrate what he believes to be certain fundamental aspects of an analytic attitude. Taking place in a psychiatric hospital, it is meant to highlight the central place of intuition, emotional receptivity, empathy, relatedness-and their inherent dangers-in engaging therapeutically with patients' emotional disturbances. The author postulates that the…
The Analyst's Attitude Toward Pharmacotherapy
The increased acceptance of medication in psychoanalysis has occurred with too little consideration of possible complications. The potentially adverse psychological effects and disintegrative aspects of this important technical modification require further examination. While the use of phenomenologically defined diagnostic criteria provides valuable guidance to the clinician, the decision to include pharmacotherapy in a psychoanalysis must be und…
Response to Busch and Sandberg
The analyst’s excitement in the analysis of perversion
The analyst's excitement in the analysis of perversion
The author believes that unconscious sexual excitement in the transference and countertransference is an especially problematic aspect of the analysis of perverse character pathology and that perverse sexual gratification deserves a more prominent position in the clinical theory of analyzing perversion than that which has been assigned tacitly through analysts' routine focus on the defensive and destructive dynamics of perversion. He presents cli…
The analyst's theory
The author asserts that the analyst's theory, personal and/or academic, is an important source of countertransference which complicates our traditional understanding of the analyst's emotional responses as being constructed from a mix of his transferences and the patient's effects on him. From this perspective, theory--because it has no intrinsic relevance to the essential phenomena of individual analytic processes--may be a confounding, as well …
Interpretive Perspectives on Interaction
The analyst's theory
The author asserts that the analyst's theory, personal and/or academic, is an important source of countertransference which complicates our traditional understanding of the analyst's emotional responses as being constructed from a mix of his transferences and the patient's effects on him. From this perspective, theory--because it has no intrinsic relevance to the essential phenomena of individual analytic processes--may be a confounding, as well …
Psychic Song and Dance
The author offers observations on the nature of pathological dissociation, emphasizing the compartmentalization of unsymbolized affective experience. The irrelevance of personal agency and intentionality in the pathogenesis of dissociative psychopathology along with the deficiency in symbolization that is a sequela of trauma present special problems for traditional as well as for Relational approaches to technique. To a significant extent, "techn…
Becoming Related
The author uses a "professional memoir," a story about his first experiences in clinical work, to illustrate what he believes to be certain fundamental aspects of an analytic attitude. Taking place in a psychiatric hospital, it is meant to highlight the central place of intuition, emotional receptivity, empathy, relatedness-and their inherent dangers-in engaging therapeutically with patients' emotional disturbances. The author postulates that the…
The Analyst's Attitude Toward Pharmacotherapy
The increased acceptance of medication in psychoanalysis has occurred with too little consideration of possible complications. The potentially adverse psychological effects and disintegrative aspects of this important technical modification require further examination. While the use of phenomenologically defined diagnostic criteria provides valuable guidance to the clinician, the decision to include pharmacotherapy in a psychoanalysis must be und…
The analyst's excitement in the analysis of perversion
The author believes that unconscious sexual excitement in the transference and countertransference is an especially problematic aspect of the analysis of perverse character pathology and that perverse sexual gratification deserves a more prominent position in the clinical theory of analyzing perversion than that which has been assigned tacitly through analysts' routine focus on the defensive and destructive dynamics of perversion. He presents cli…
Response to Busch and Sandberg
Interpretive Perspectives on Interaction
Interpretive Perspectives on Interaction
The analyst's theory
The author asserts that the analyst's theory, personal and/or academic, is an important source of countertransference which complicates our traditional understanding of the analyst's emotional responses as being constructed from a mix of his transferences and the patient's effects on him. From this perspective, theory--because it has no intrinsic relevance to the essential phenomena of individual analytic processes--may be a confounding, as well …
The analyst’s excitement in the analysis of perversion
The analyst's excitement in the analysis of perversion
The author believes that unconscious sexual excitement in the transference and countertransference is an especially problematic aspect of the analysis of perverse character pathology and that perverse sexual gratification deserves a more prominent position in the clinical theory of analyzing perversion than that which has been assigned tacitly through analysts' routine focus on the defensive and destructive dynamics of perversion. He presents cli…
The Analyst's Attitude Toward Pharmacotherapy
The increased acceptance of medication in psychoanalysis has occurred with too little consideration of possible complications. The potentially adverse psychological effects and disintegrative aspects of this important technical modification require further examination. While the use of phenomenologically defined diagnostic criteria provides valuable guidance to the clinician, the decision to include pharmacotherapy in a psychoanalysis must be und…
Response to Busch and Sandberg
Becoming Related
The author uses a "professional memoir," a story about his first experiences in clinical work, to illustrate what he believes to be certain fundamental aspects of an analytic attitude. Taking place in a psychiatric hospital, it is meant to highlight the central place of intuition, emotional receptivity, empathy, relatedness-and their inherent dangers-in engaging therapeutically with patients' emotional disturbances. The author postulates that the…
Psychic Song and Dance
The author offers observations on the nature of pathological dissociation, emphasizing the compartmentalization of unsymbolized affective experience. The irrelevance of personal agency and intentionality in the pathogenesis of dissociative psychopathology along with the deficiency in symbolization that is a sequela of trauma present special problems for traditional as well as for Relational approaches to technique. To a significant extent, "techn…
Journeys in Psychoanalysis
This volume consists of thirteen separate pieces, each of which (with one exception) has been previously published as a journal article or book chapter. It collects a lifetime of work and incorpora
Dissociation
On Terminating, Ending, and Not Ending
The author describes and reflects upon his clinical experiences with both mutually desired terminations and coerced endings. He addresses issues of technique, being real in termination and post-termination contact in addition to offering his perspectives on the role of theory in determining the phenomena of termination, retraumatizing aspects of termination, termination and death, and the question of whether analytic relationships could or should…
Psychology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Countertransference (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Transference (3 works)