How To Help Patients (and Analysts) Bear the Unbearable

Psychoanalytic techniques are explored through which analysts can help patients tolerate, face, and attempt to resolve affects and conflicts that have seemed unbearable to the patient. The patient's feeling of “I can't” is differentiated from the feeling of “I won't.” Process material focuses on patients' shifts between seeming inability to function as analytic collaborators and more responsible ownership and exploration of conflict. Analysts' either/or attitudes toward analyzability tend to interfere with flexible shifting between times when they can interpret and prolonged periods when they cannot interpret and the patient cannot collaborate. During the latter, the analyst needs to provide some noninterpretive function, such as holding, containing, or affirming, both for the patient and for him/herself

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• Perverse Defenses in Neurotic Patients

  Open Access•Stanley J Coen•Journal of the American…•1998

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• The imposition of gender

  Nina Williams•Psychoanalytic Psychology•2002

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• The imposition of gender

  Nina Williams•Psychoanalytic Psychology•2002

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• I can do it (all) myself

  Richard Almond•Psychoanalytic Psychology•2004

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• Psychological testing and analyzability

  Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger, Mary Jo Peebles‐Kleiger et al.•Psychoanalytic Psychology•2006

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• The Wish To Regress in Patient and Analyst

  Open Access•Stanley J Coen•Journal of the American…•2000

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• Why We Need to Write Openly About Our Clinical Cases

  Open Access•Stanley J Coen•Journal of the American…•2000

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• Clinical Discussants as Psychoanalytic Readers

  Open Access•Stanley J Coen•Journal of the American…•2000

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• Psychic Retreats

  J F Steiner, John Steiner•Psychic Retreats•2003

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• Topography and systems in psychoanalytic theory.

  Merton M Gill•1963

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• Trauma and Affects

  Henry Krystal•The Psychoanalytic Study of the…•1978

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• The role of polymorph‐perverse body‐experiences and object‐relations in ego‐integration

  Open Access•M Masud R Khan•British Journal of Medical…•1962

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• “Someday...” and “If Only...” Fantasies

  Open Access•Salman Akhtar•Journal of the American…•1996

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• Frustration and Externalization

  Peter L Giovacchini•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1967

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• Resistance in Convergent and in Divergent Conflicts

  Anton O Kris•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1985

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• The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

  Open Access•Dana Birksted‐Breen, R Michels•The International Journal of…•2007

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• Denial and the Sense of Separateness

  Open Access•Arnold H Modell•Journal of the American…•1961

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• Addictive Sexual Behavior

  Open Access•Wayne A Myers•Journal of the American…•1994

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• "The Holding Environment" And The Therapeutic Action Of Psychoanalysis

  Open Access•Arnold H Modell•Journal of the American…•1976

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• The Interpretation of Transference and the Conditions for Loving

  Open Access•Roy Schafer•Journal of the American…•1977

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• Helping Patients by Analyzing Self-Criticism

  Open Access•Anton O Kris•Journal of the American…•1990

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• Intolerance of Responsibility for Internal Conflict

  Open Access•Stanley J Coen•Journal of the American…•1989

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