Alexandra M Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 5212088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra M Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra M |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Harvard Medical School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A qualitative analysis of adolescent motherhood within the broader family context in Peru
Manifestations of Intergenerational Trauma During the Perinatal Period Among Adolescent Mothers in Lima, Peru: A Qualitative Analysis
Rhythms of dialogue in infant research and child analysis: Implicit and explicit forms of therapeutic action
The sandwich model: The ‘music and dance’ of therapeutic action
My premise is that a 'layered' approach is necessary to understand the process of exchanges that result in therapeutic change. I imagine these processes occurring in three layers - although the number of domains in which change is taking place is actually infinite - such as in a sandwich. The top layer, or top slice of bread of the sandwich, represents a broad view of the change process; it is non-linear and includes the feature of uncertainty, a…
The Noise Monitor”: A Developmental Perspective on Verbal and Nonverbal Meaning-Making in Psychoanalysis
This paper discusses a contribution of developmental theory to the psychoanalytic concept of “the talking cure.” The developmental theory presented is the dyadic expansion of consciousness model (Tronick 2007), a model consistent with the principles of nonlinear systems theory. The concept of “polysemic bundles” as a way of understanding the multiple simultaneous meaning-making processes occurring in dyadic communication is introduced. The theore…
How Infants Know Minds
by Vasudevi Reddy Harvard University Press , London, UK , 2008 ; 273 pp; £25.95 How Infants Know Minds by Vasudevi Reddy is a well‐written exploration of infant development that will be of value bo
Developing a Consultative Model Using Videotape To Support Institutional Caregivers Worldwide
Change in Psychoanalysis: Getting From A to B
The change that occurred during an analytic hour with a seven-year-old girl is explored by means of videotape observation and aspects of developmental theory drawn from the field of infant research. Detailed review of the videotape and transcript of twelve minutes of the analytic hour revealed significant change in the girl's attitude toward the loss represented by a cancelled session. The moment-to-moment process between two points, A and B—iden…
Explicating the implicit: The local level and the microprocess of change in the analytic situation
This paper proposes a method of examining the micro-events of the analytic process that borrows heavily from developmental research. The increasing importance of illuminating the microprocess of interaction to understanding the process of change in analytic treatment is emphasised. A set of constructs and terminology is proposed for the study of the moment-to-moment interactive process in psychoanalytic therapy referred to as the local level. A t…
Moving along to things left undone
This paper expands on three areas of clinical theory that are introduced and discussed in the lead paper and the others in this symposium. The first issue addressed is the concept of the real relationship as used in the moment of meeting model of psychotherapeutic change. Particular focus has been placed on the past, the present, and the hierarchy of goals in the treatment relationship. Second, the paper explores the concept of implicit relationa…
Implicit relational knowing: Its role in development and psychoanalytic treatment
Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change
This paper addresses an intersubjective issue that arises out of our model of therapeutic change: Why do humans so strongly seek states of emotional connectedness and intersubjectivity and why does the failure to achieve connectedness have such a damaging effect on the mental health of the infant? A hypothesis is offered—the Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness Hypothesis—as an attempt to explain these phenomena. This hypothesis is based on the Mutu…
Case illustration: Moving along…and, is change gradual or sudden
A sequence of analytic sessions of a professional woman in her forties is used to illustrate the moving along process. The material shows a gradual change, where the patient's experience of her sense of agency is altered through a particular kind of interactive sequence. The example is intended to make it clear that the group's view of how change occurs is not strictly or primarily in terms of sudden changes, and that the problem of assessing mom…
The process of therapeutic change involving implicit knowledge: Some implications of developmental observations for adult psychotherapy
Several aspects of developmental change that are dependent on interactions between parent and infant are examined for their value in casting light on the processes of change in adult psychotherapies. First, the domain of implicit knowledge (where changes necessarily occur in nonverbal infants) is identified. The vast majority of therapeutic change is found to occur in this domain. We then examine the improvised, largely unpredictable, nonlinear m…
The case of Sophie
The analysis of a girl from ages 3 to 5 years old offers a clinical illustration of an alternative theory of change. In this theory the process of change is organized around nodal points of exchange between patient and analyst, designated as “now moments” and “moments of meeting.” In the case presented, these moments were preceded by an intensification of affect and were accompanied by a sense of openness and ambiguity. As often as not they were …
Reflections on the process of psychotherapeutic change as applied to medical situations
This article takes the basic ideas on the process of changing implicit knowledge put forward in this special issue, and extends them beyond psychotherapy to include other therapeutic relationships that occur in medicine. One vignette, from an encounter between a medical student and a dying patient, illustrates how a “moment of meeting” changes the student as well as the patient. The second shows how therapeutic interventions for new mothers with …
Implicit relational knowing: Its role in development and psychoanalytic treatment
It is increasingly apparent that “something more” than interpretation is needed to bring about change in psychoanalytic treatment. Drawing on clinical and developmental observations, we propose that interactional processes from birth onward give rise to a form of procedural knowledge regarding how to do things with intimate others, knowledge we call implicit relational knowing. This knowing is distinct from conscious verbalizable knowledge and fr…
Reflections on the process of psychotherapeutic change as applied to medical situations
This article takes the basic ideas on the process of changing implicit knowledge put forward in this special issue, and extends them beyond psychotherapy to include other therapeutic relationships that occur in medicine. One vignette, from an encounter between a medical student and a dying patient, illustrates how a “moment of meeting” changes the student as well as the patient. The second shows how therapeutic interventions for new mothers with …
Moving along to things left undone
This paper expands on three areas of clinical theory that are introduced and discussed in the lead paper and the others in this symposium. The first issue addressed is the concept of the real relationship as used in the moment of meeting model of psychotherapeutic change. Particular focus has been placed on the past, the present, and the hierarchy of goals in the treatment relationship. Second, the paper explores the concept of implicit relationa…
Interventions that effect change in psychotherapy: A model based on infant research
Interventions that effect change in psychotherapy: A model based on infant research
The use of children's religious ideas in their psychiatric evaluation
The sandwich model: The ‘music and dance’ of therapeutic action
My premise is that a 'layered' approach is necessary to understand the process of exchanges that result in therapeutic change. I imagine these processes occurring in three layers - although the number of domains in which change is taking place is actually infinite - such as in a sandwich. The top layer, or top slice of bread of the sandwich, represents a broad view of the change process; it is non-linear and includes the feature of uncertainty, a…
The Noise Monitor”: A Developmental Perspective on Verbal and Nonverbal Meaning-Making in Psychoanalysis
This paper discusses a contribution of developmental theory to the psychoanalytic concept of “the talking cure.” The developmental theory presented is the dyadic expansion of consciousness model (Tronick 2007), a model consistent with the principles of nonlinear systems theory. The concept of “polysemic bundles” as a way of understanding the multiple simultaneous meaning-making processes occurring in dyadic communication is introduced. The theore…
Change in Psychoanalysis: Getting From A to B
The change that occurred during an analytic hour with a seven-year-old girl is explored by means of videotape observation and aspects of developmental theory drawn from the field of infant research. Detailed review of the videotape and transcript of twelve minutes of the analytic hour revealed significant change in the girl's attitude toward the loss represented by a cancelled session. The moment-to-moment process between two points, A and B—iden…
The use of children's religious ideas in their psychiatric evaluation
Moving along to things left undone
This paper expands on three areas of clinical theory that are introduced and discussed in the lead paper and the others in this symposium. The first issue addressed is the concept of the real relationship as used in the moment of meeting model of psychotherapeutic change. Particular focus has been placed on the past, the present, and the hierarchy of goals in the treatment relationship. Second, the paper explores the concept of implicit relationa…
Implicit relational knowing: Its role in development and psychoanalytic treatment
Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change
This paper addresses an intersubjective issue that arises out of our model of therapeutic change: Why do humans so strongly seek states of emotional connectedness and intersubjectivity and why does the failure to achieve connectedness have such a damaging effect on the mental health of the infant? A hypothesis is offered—the Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness Hypothesis—as an attempt to explain these phenomena. This hypothesis is based on the Mutu…
Case illustration: Moving along…and, is change gradual or sudden
A sequence of analytic sessions of a professional woman in her forties is used to illustrate the moving along process. The material shows a gradual change, where the patient's experience of her sense of agency is altered through a particular kind of interactive sequence. The example is intended to make it clear that the group's view of how change occurs is not strictly or primarily in terms of sudden changes, and that the problem of assessing mom…
The process of therapeutic change involving implicit knowledge: Some implications of developmental observations for adult psychotherapy
Several aspects of developmental change that are dependent on interactions between parent and infant are examined for their value in casting light on the processes of change in adult psychotherapies. First, the domain of implicit knowledge (where changes necessarily occur in nonverbal infants) is identified. The vast majority of therapeutic change is found to occur in this domain. We then examine the improvised, largely unpredictable, nonlinear m…
The case of Sophie
The analysis of a girl from ages 3 to 5 years old offers a clinical illustration of an alternative theory of change. In this theory the process of change is organized around nodal points of exchange between patient and analyst, designated as “now moments” and “moments of meeting.” In the case presented, these moments were preceded by an intensification of affect and were accompanied by a sense of openness and ambiguity. As often as not they were …
Reflections on the process of psychotherapeutic change as applied to medical situations
This article takes the basic ideas on the process of changing implicit knowledge put forward in this special issue, and extends them beyond psychotherapy to include other therapeutic relationships that occur in medicine. One vignette, from an encounter between a medical student and a dying patient, illustrates how a “moment of meeting” changes the student as well as the patient. The second shows how therapeutic interventions for new mothers with …
Implicit relational knowing: Its role in development and psychoanalytic treatment
It is increasingly apparent that “something more” than interpretation is needed to bring about change in psychoanalytic treatment. Drawing on clinical and developmental observations, we propose that interactional processes from birth onward give rise to a form of procedural knowledge regarding how to do things with intimate others, knowledge we call implicit relational knowing. This knowing is distinct from conscious verbalizable knowledge and fr…
Reflections on the process of psychotherapeutic change as applied to medical situations
This article takes the basic ideas on the process of changing implicit knowledge put forward in this special issue, and extends them beyond psychotherapy to include other therapeutic relationships that occur in medicine. One vignette, from an encounter between a medical student and a dying patient, illustrates how a “moment of meeting” changes the student as well as the patient. The second shows how therapeutic interventions for new mothers with …
Moving along to things left undone
This paper expands on three areas of clinical theory that are introduced and discussed in the lead paper and the others in this symposium. The first issue addressed is the concept of the real relationship as used in the moment of meeting model of psychotherapeutic change. Particular focus has been placed on the past, the present, and the hierarchy of goals in the treatment relationship. Second, the paper explores the concept of implicit relationa…
Interventions that effect change in psychotherapy: A model based on infant research
Interventions that effect change in psychotherapy: A model based on infant research
Explicating the implicit: The local level and the microprocess of change in the analytic situation
This paper proposes a method of examining the micro-events of the analytic process that borrows heavily from developmental research. The increasing importance of illuminating the microprocess of interaction to understanding the process of change in analytic treatment is emphasised. A set of constructs and terminology is proposed for the study of the moment-to-moment interactive process in psychoanalytic therapy referred to as the local level. A t…
Change in Psychoanalysis: Getting From A to B
The change that occurred during an analytic hour with a seven-year-old girl is explored by means of videotape observation and aspects of developmental theory drawn from the field of infant research. Detailed review of the videotape and transcript of twelve minutes of the analytic hour revealed significant change in the girl's attitude toward the loss represented by a cancelled session. The moment-to-moment process between two points, A and B—iden…
How Infants Know Minds
by Vasudevi Reddy Harvard University Press , London, UK , 2008 ; 273 pp; £25.95 How Infants Know Minds by Vasudevi Reddy is a well‐written exploration of infant development that will be of value bo
Developing a Consultative Model Using Videotape To Support Institutional Caregivers Worldwide
The Noise Monitor”: A Developmental Perspective on Verbal and Nonverbal Meaning-Making in Psychoanalysis
This paper discusses a contribution of developmental theory to the psychoanalytic concept of “the talking cure.” The developmental theory presented is the dyadic expansion of consciousness model (Tronick 2007), a model consistent with the principles of nonlinear systems theory. The concept of “polysemic bundles” as a way of understanding the multiple simultaneous meaning-making processes occurring in dyadic communication is introduced. The theore…
The sandwich model: The ‘music and dance’ of therapeutic action
My premise is that a 'layered' approach is necessary to understand the process of exchanges that result in therapeutic change. I imagine these processes occurring in three layers - although the number of domains in which change is taking place is actually infinite - such as in a sandwich. The top layer, or top slice of bread of the sandwich, represents a broad view of the change process; it is non-linear and includes the feature of uncertainty, a…
Rhythms of dialogue in infant research and child analysis: Implicit and explicit forms of therapeutic action
Manifestations of Intergenerational Trauma During the Perinatal Period Among Adolescent Mothers in Lima, Peru: A Qualitative Analysis
A qualitative analysis of adolescent motherhood within the broader family context in Peru
Psychology (21 works) · Psychotherapist (15 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (12 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Process (computing) (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works)