The Patient’s Objects in the Analyst’s Mind

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ID9230352
AuthorsNancy Kulish (0009-0003-3830-7665, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Wayne State Medical School., corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume83
Issue4
Pages843-869
Publication date2014-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.2167-4086.2014.00124.x
PMID25346080
OpenAlexW2056544763
LanguageEN
References cited12

In every analysis, the analyst develops an internal relationship with the patient's objects-that is, the people in the patient's life and mind. Sometimes these figures can inhabit the analyst's mind as a source of data, but at other times, the analyst may feel preoccupied with or even invaded by them. The author presents two clinical cases: one in which the seeming absence of a good object in the patient's mind made the analyst hesitate to proceed with an analysis, and another in which the patient's preoccupation with a "bad" object was shared and mirrored by the analyst's own inner preoccupation with the object. The use and experience of these two objects by the analyst are discussed with particular attention to the countertransference

Cognitive psychology · Countertransference · Object (grammar) · Object relations theory · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Transference · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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