The illumination of history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Feldman (15 Cholmeley Cres, London, N6 5EZ, UK ‐, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 609-625 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-29 |
| 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/x464-52x1-7t74-h036 |
| PMID | 17537695 |
| OpenAlex | W2045376563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 2 |
Formulations regarding the patient's history have not only played an important part in understanding the patient, but interpretations explicitly linking the present with the past have been seen as central to the therapeutic process. In this paper the author considers the role of historical reconstruction in bringing about psychic change. He emphasizes the therapeutic value that lies in the exploration of the way the patient's history is embodied in his internal object relationships, becoming manifested in the transference-countertransference relationship. The author presents clinical material which he suggests allowed the analyst to follow the way the patient's internal object relations, coloured by her history, became expressed and played out in the sessions. He suggests that, when these processes can be followed and addressed in the present, this may lead to a diminution in the underlying anxieties. This can thus promote psychic change by freeing the patient's capacity to achieve a sense of connection with her history, and to tolerate the meaning of what emerges, which illuminates both the present and the past
Aesthetics · Countertransference · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Object relations theory · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Therapeutic relationship · Transference · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Between Past and Present
Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication
The role of the patient’s remembered history and unconscious past in the evolution of Betty Joseph’s ‘Here and now’ clinical technique (1959–1989)
The workable here and now and the why of there and then
Can you push a camel through the eye of a needle?’ Reflections on how the unconscious speaks to us and its clinical implications
On authenticity
Changing views of what is curative in 3 psychoanalytic methods and the emerging, surprising common ground
On creating a psychoanalytic mind
Collective traumas, personal overcoming
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |