Raiding the inarticulate
The internal analytic setting and listening beyond countertransference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Parsons (0000-0002-2344-7839, 11 Offerton Road, London, SW4 ODH, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1441-1456 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| 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/t564-g13j-400h-2w23 |
| PMID | 18055376 |
| OpenAlex | W4229986714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 3 |
The analytic setting exists not only externally but also internally as a structure in the mind of the analyst. The internal analytic setting constitutes an area of the analyst's mind where reality is defined by unconscious symbolic meaning. Clinical examples illustrate how a secure internal setting allows flexibility in the external setting without sacrifice of its analytic quality. The internal setting can help analysts listen inwardly to themselves in a way that is free-floating with regard to their internal processes. This points beyond usual ideas of countertransference. An analytic encounter may stir up elements that belong to the analyst's psyche which, rather than impeding the analysis, can actively enrich it. Seamus Heaney's writings evoke comparisons between listening to poems and listening to patients, and a week in a patient's analysis is described in relation to these themes
Active listening · Countertransference · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Relation (database · Statement (logic · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Palavra e corpo transcritos no espaço virtual
Donald Winnicott and Stephen Mitchell’s Developmental Tilt Hypothesis Reconsidered
Neutrality in psychoanalysis
The Mark of the Decanting and the Brick Mother Report
Our sudden switch to teleanalysis during a pandemic
Psychoanalysis in the time of coronavirus
For intensive in-person psychoanalysis in psychoanalytic training
Psychoanalytic education and teleanalysis
Introduction
Prescience and Premonition
The analyst’s experience of the depressive position
What we don’t talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis
Frame as a commonly shared transitional object
The psychoanalytic setting
The Elusiveness of “The Feminine” in The Male Analyst
Some Vicissitudes of playing related to containment and disruption
Shared Trauma, the Renegotiation of the Frame, and the Preservation of What Is Essential
Toward an Ethic of Play in Psychoanalysis
The Missing Father Function in Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
The body of the analyst and the analytic setting
From the “squiggle game” to “games of reciprocity” towards a creative co-construction of a space for working with adolescents
On
A theory of the setting
Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level
Observation
Together – apart
Avatar of Desire
On the question of the internal frame
Reflections on the Analyst’s “Good Enough” Capacity to Bear Disappointment, with Special Attention to Repetition
Psychoanalysis as Poetry
Notes on the Analytic True Self for Another
Analytic Listening and the Five Senses
Playing in the Darkness
The Analyst’s Ambivalence About Continuing and Deepening an Analysis
The Limit of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limit
Stance, Set, Transference
Living an experience of defence
When remote analysis is used as an attack on the frame
Too much – not enough. The representation of the body and the meaning of symptoms in patients with eating disorders
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |