Whose sleep is it, anyway? Or ‘night moves’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ofra Eshel (Herzliya on Sea, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 545-562 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/pr38-w1ku-yn5w-pqxw |
| PMID | 11436252 |
| OpenAlex | W1964553565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 11 |
The analyst's 'sleep' during sessions is a puzzling, troubling, extreme experience, which has rarely been described in the psychoanalytic literature. The author presents a clinical illustration in which her recurring 'sleep' during the sessions was approached as an open, central issue. She attempts to explore, understand and integrate this experience theoretically and clinically, first by reviewing and examining the psychoanalytic literature on the subject and on related phenomena, and then, more particularly, by formulating her own explanation of it. She emphasises being in the grip of the psychoanalytic process, and the immersed involvement and converging of patient and analyst, which generate a conjoint state of deep experiential interconnectedness and impact on each other--in particular the impact of the patient's inner world on the analyst. In this context, the author also refers to the notions of 'the uncanny', 'fear of breakdown' and dissociative self-states and the mitigation of the patient's dissociative self-experience via the analyst's vicarious dissociative experience
Context (archaeology · Dissociative · Experiential learning · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Are we (tele)together? Contact varieties and the feasibility of tele-psychoanalysis
Sabina Spielrein’s Death Drive, Queer Experience, and Psychoanalytic Twogetherness
Body to Body
Patient-Analyst “Withness”
Where are you, my beloved
Pentheus rather than Oedipus
Psychoanalytic application and psychoanalytic integrity
"We try harder" - Silence and Grice's cooperative principle, maxims and implicatures
Do I dare disturb the universe? A memorial to Wilfred R. Bion.
On Knowing What One Knows
Drowsiness as a Symptom of Countertransference
On the Analyzing Instrument
The Dissociative Character
Why We Need to Write Openly About Our Clinical Cases
The Defensive Function of an Altered State of Consciousness
The Sleepy Analyst
Defensive Alterations of Consciousness
One Kind of Negative Therapeutic Reaction
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |