Dale Boesky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5212118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dale Boesky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Boesky |
| SIGNATURE | BOESKY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 755 W. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48084 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Action and the Analyst’s Responsibility
ion ARe incoheRent At issue here is not that we lose something by inadvertently shifting from the low altitude of our “fictions” about the meaning of what our patients are saying to the lofty altitudes of our highly abstract theories about the mode of therapeutic action. Making shifts from lower to higher levels of generalization without recognizing we have shifted is indeed perilous. It is by no means proven we all get the same results. For the …
Spontaneous Remissions
Almost sixty years ago, Norman Reider published a paper about spontaneous "remissions" he had observed. He discussed the manner in which psychoanalytic theory provided a way to partially explain these otherwise mysterious remissions or improvements in symptoms, some without benefit of either psychoanalysis or psychotherapy. Especially important were his comments about the negligible role of interpretation or insight in these examples. His conject…
Spontaneous “Cures”
Part I of this paper combined an introduction to Norman Reider's original 1955 paper with a republication of the paper itself. Part II is a discussion of the complexities of a comparison of past and present psychoanalytic literature. The concept of enactment is proposed as one of many possible alternative views in considering Reider's notion of spontaneous "cures." A careful consideration of these spontaneous cures within the ordinary ups and dow…
What does the presentation of case material tell us about what actually happened in an analysis and how does it do this
The above title suggested for this discussion (Blass, 2013, p. 1129) alludes to topics of such magnitude and complexity that in the present context I will primarily consider only one of these that
A New Freudian Synthesis
Notes1. For an alternative view of this interaction see CitationAhumada, 1990, p. 177: “Transposition of self and object is a two‐person psychology structure in which a central enacted ‘false’ self in‐the‐place‐of‐the‐object keeps split off into a partenaire the (unconscious) needy emotional ‘baby’ self.” (Partenaire means here the external ‘real’ person who acts as a depository for the split‐off aspect of the self.)
The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory
Notes1. ‘‘There is another kind of incompleteness which I myself have intentionally introduced. I have as a rule not reproduced the process of interpretation to which the patient’s associations and communications had to be subjected, but only the result of that process’’(CitationFreud, 1905, pp. 12–13).2. I agree with CitationBergman (2004, p. 263) that not everyone would be persuaded to accept Rangell’s views about what should be included or exc…
The Principle of Multiple Function”
(2007). “The Principle of Multiple Function”: Revisiting a Classic Seventy-Five Years Later. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 93-117
Psychoanalytic Controversies Contextualized
Psychoanalytic disagreements are famously heated, polarized, and prolonged. These controversies are often the reflection of a shared agreement by the participants to engage in debate at an abstract level far removed from the clinical context in which the disagreement first arose. As a specimen example of such disputes, a case report by Patrick Casement is examined, together with a series of polemical discussions it inspired concerning physical co…
Why Don’t Our Institutes Teach the Methodology of Clinical Psychoanalytic Evidence
One of the most pressing theoretical, therapeutic, and educational problems confronting the advance of psychoanalysis is our confusion about the nature of clinical evidence. There is considerable disagreement among psychoanalysts about how to define evidence. Recently, there has also been a growing tendency toward evidential nihilism, justified by some of the more radical constructivist-narrative views of postmodern epistemology. Two surveys, con…
Affect, Language and Communication
The author discusses Hernández's enriching and clarifying paper, which directs us to the limitations of language with regard to affective movements that barely attain the condition of thinkability and thereby to the important and confusing topic of enactments, which are the lingua franca for the communication of dangerous and repudiated affects. Enactments bridge the interface between what is expressible, and inexpressible, between what is forgot…
Dale Boesky Responds
Clinical Evidence and Multiple Models
Commentaries
The Psychoanalytic Process and Its Components
Certain problems in defining the psychoanalytic process emerged during the five years in which a COPE study group was attempting to clarify the concept. There was agreement about the bed-rock criteria to be included in a definition: e.g., transference, resistance, a dynamic unconscious, intrapsychic conflict, defense, infantile sexuality, insight which causes change, and change which brings insight. The disagreements centered on the locus of the …
The Questions and Curiosity of the Psychoanalyst
Questions the analyst asks of the patient are a powerful but neglected aspect of the theory of psychoanalytic technique. Their importance resides in their dynamic impact on the psychic equilibrium of the patient because of their ability to destabilize existing compromise formations. A clinical vignette illustrates the view that the linguistic shift from other modes of discourse to the spoken question heralds a less visible parallel shift in the p…
The Problem of Mental Representation in Self and Object Theory
The concept of mental representation has come to mean too many things. Some authors use representational terms to include both subjective experience and nonphenomenal, abstract, explanatory concepts. The reconciliation between the representational and structural frames of reference cannot be achieved by a conceptual stuffing of representations into the system ego as a container. The mediation of mental activities by substructures of the mind is a…
Xerox
Proverbs and Psychoanalysis
Proverbs have much to teach the psychoanalyst. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the clinical usefulness of viewing certain proverbs as analogous to typical dreams, to discuss some implications of the affinities between proverbs, riddles, and typical dreams in the context of applied psychoanalysis, and to view the proverb as stemming from the same common matrix as dreams, myths, symptoms, and folklore
Déjà Raconté as a Screen Defense
The Reversal of DÉJÀ RacontÉ
The Psychoanalytic Process and Its Components
Certain problems in defining the psychoanalytic process emerged during the five years in which a COPE study group was attempting to clarify the concept. There was agreement about the bed-rock criteria to be included in a definition: e.g., transference, resistance, a dynamic unconscious, intrapsychic conflict, defense, infantile sexuality, insight which causes change, and change which brings insight. The disagreements centered on the locus of the …
Why Don’t Our Institutes Teach the Methodology of Clinical Psychoanalytic Evidence
One of the most pressing theoretical, therapeutic, and educational problems confronting the advance of psychoanalysis is our confusion about the nature of clinical evidence. There is considerable disagreement among psychoanalysts about how to define evidence. Recently, there has also been a growing tendency toward evidential nihilism, justified by some of the more radical constructivist-narrative views of postmodern epistemology. Two surveys, con…
The Questions and Curiosity of the Psychoanalyst
Questions the analyst asks of the patient are a powerful but neglected aspect of the theory of psychoanalytic technique. Their importance resides in their dynamic impact on the psychic equilibrium of the patient because of their ability to destabilize existing compromise formations. A clinical vignette illustrates the view that the linguistic shift from other modes of discourse to the spoken question heralds a less visible parallel shift in the p…
Psychoanalytic Controversies Contextualized
Psychoanalytic disagreements are famously heated, polarized, and prolonged. These controversies are often the reflection of a shared agreement by the participants to engage in debate at an abstract level far removed from the clinical context in which the disagreement first arose. As a specimen example of such disputes, a case report by Patrick Casement is examined, together with a series of polemical discussions it inspired concerning physical co…
Affect, Language and Communication
The author discusses Hernández's enriching and clarifying paper, which directs us to the limitations of language with regard to affective movements that barely attain the condition of thinkability and thereby to the important and confusing topic of enactments, which are the lingua franca for the communication of dangerous and repudiated affects. Enactments bridge the interface between what is expressible, and inexpressible, between what is forgot…
Clinical Evidence and Multiple Models
The Reversal of DÉJÀ RacontÉ
The Problem of Mental Representation in Self and Object Theory
The concept of mental representation has come to mean too many things. Some authors use representational terms to include both subjective experience and nonphenomenal, abstract, explanatory concepts. The reconciliation between the representational and structural frames of reference cannot be achieved by a conceptual stuffing of representations into the system ego as a container. The mediation of mental activities by substructures of the mind is a…
Action and the Analyst’s Responsibility
ion ARe incoheRent At issue here is not that we lose something by inadvertently shifting from the low altitude of our “fictions” about the meaning of what our patients are saying to the lofty altitudes of our highly abstract theories about the mode of therapeutic action. Making shifts from lower to higher levels of generalization without recognizing we have shifted is indeed perilous. It is by no means proven we all get the same results. For the …
A New Freudian Synthesis
Notes1. For an alternative view of this interaction see CitationAhumada, 1990, p. 177: “Transposition of self and object is a two‐person psychology structure in which a central enacted ‘false’ self in‐the‐place‐of‐the‐object keeps split off into a partenaire the (unconscious) needy emotional ‘baby’ self.” (Partenaire means here the external ‘real’ person who acts as a depository for the split‐off aspect of the self.)
Déjà Raconté as a Screen Defense
The Reversal of DÉJÀ RacontÉ
Déjà Raconté as a Screen Defense
Xerox
Proverbs and Psychoanalysis
Proverbs have much to teach the psychoanalyst. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the clinical usefulness of viewing certain proverbs as analogous to typical dreams, to discuss some implications of the affinities between proverbs, riddles, and typical dreams in the context of applied psychoanalysis, and to view the proverb as stemming from the same common matrix as dreams, myths, symptoms, and folklore
The Problem of Mental Representation in Self and Object Theory
The concept of mental representation has come to mean too many things. Some authors use representational terms to include both subjective experience and nonphenomenal, abstract, explanatory concepts. The reconciliation between the representational and structural frames of reference cannot be achieved by a conceptual stuffing of representations into the system ego as a container. The mediation of mental activities by substructures of the mind is a…
The Questions and Curiosity of the Psychoanalyst
Questions the analyst asks of the patient are a powerful but neglected aspect of the theory of psychoanalytic technique. Their importance resides in their dynamic impact on the psychic equilibrium of the patient because of their ability to destabilize existing compromise formations. A clinical vignette illustrates the view that the linguistic shift from other modes of discourse to the spoken question heralds a less visible parallel shift in the p…
The Psychoanalytic Process and Its Components
Certain problems in defining the psychoanalytic process emerged during the five years in which a COPE study group was attempting to clarify the concept. There was agreement about the bed-rock criteria to be included in a definition: e.g., transference, resistance, a dynamic unconscious, intrapsychic conflict, defense, infantile sexuality, insight which causes change, and change which brings insight. The disagreements centered on the locus of the …
Commentaries
Clinical Evidence and Multiple Models
Dale Boesky Responds
Affect, Language and Communication
The author discusses Hernández's enriching and clarifying paper, which directs us to the limitations of language with regard to affective movements that barely attain the condition of thinkability and thereby to the important and confusing topic of enactments, which are the lingua franca for the communication of dangerous and repudiated affects. Enactments bridge the interface between what is expressible, and inexpressible, between what is forgot…
Why Don’t Our Institutes Teach the Methodology of Clinical Psychoanalytic Evidence
One of the most pressing theoretical, therapeutic, and educational problems confronting the advance of psychoanalysis is our confusion about the nature of clinical evidence. There is considerable disagreement among psychoanalysts about how to define evidence. Recently, there has also been a growing tendency toward evidential nihilism, justified by some of the more radical constructivist-narrative views of postmodern epistemology. Two surveys, con…
Psychoanalytic Controversies Contextualized
Psychoanalytic disagreements are famously heated, polarized, and prolonged. These controversies are often the reflection of a shared agreement by the participants to engage in debate at an abstract level far removed from the clinical context in which the disagreement first arose. As a specimen example of such disputes, a case report by Patrick Casement is examined, together with a series of polemical discussions it inspired concerning physical co…
The Principle of Multiple Function”
(2007). “The Principle of Multiple Function”: Revisiting a Classic Seventy-Five Years Later. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 93-117
The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory
Notes1. ‘‘There is another kind of incompleteness which I myself have intentionally introduced. I have as a rule not reproduced the process of interpretation to which the patient’s associations and communications had to be subjected, but only the result of that process’’(CitationFreud, 1905, pp. 12–13).2. I agree with CitationBergman (2004, p. 263) that not everyone would be persuaded to accept Rangell’s views about what should be included or exc…
A New Freudian Synthesis
Notes1. For an alternative view of this interaction see CitationAhumada, 1990, p. 177: “Transposition of self and object is a two‐person psychology structure in which a central enacted ‘false’ self in‐the‐place‐of‐the‐object keeps split off into a partenaire the (unconscious) needy emotional ‘baby’ self.” (Partenaire means here the external ‘real’ person who acts as a depository for the split‐off aspect of the self.)
What does the presentation of case material tell us about what actually happened in an analysis and how does it do this
The above title suggested for this discussion (Blass, 2013, p. 1129) alludes to topics of such magnitude and complexity that in the present context I will primarily consider only one of these that
Spontaneous Remissions
Almost sixty years ago, Norman Reider published a paper about spontaneous "remissions" he had observed. He discussed the manner in which psychoanalytic theory provided a way to partially explain these otherwise mysterious remissions or improvements in symptoms, some without benefit of either psychoanalysis or psychotherapy. Especially important were his comments about the negligible role of interpretation or insight in these examples. His conject…
Spontaneous “Cures”
Part I of this paper combined an introduction to Norman Reider's original 1955 paper with a republication of the paper itself. Part II is a discussion of the complexities of a comparison of past and present psychoanalytic literature. The concept of enactment is proposed as one of many possible alternative views in considering Reider's notion of spontaneous "cures." A careful consideration of these spontaneous cures within the ordinary ups and dow…
Action and the Analyst’s Responsibility
ion ARe incoheRent At issue here is not that we lose something by inadvertently shifting from the low altitude of our “fictions” about the meaning of what our patients are saying to the lofty altitudes of our highly abstract theories about the mode of therapeutic action. Making shifts from lower to higher levels of generalization without recognizing we have shifted is indeed perilous. It is by no means proven we all get the same results. For the …
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