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I believe what is helpful is not necessarily about getting new insights. Ideally it is especially in the context of talking with other people and working with other people, other patients other staff members. But it's more about being in the same environment.
MSK: I truly appreciate your giving me this opportunity to have a conversation Marshall. I see your book as a unique contribution to the field of psychoanalytic treatments. Not just because of our personal history and my affection to you, but also as an objective reader. As much as I can be, of course.
I read your book a few times. It has a memoir element and has an essay component where you write about psychoanalytic work. You've clearly given a lot of thought to psychoanalytic treatment. I have some comments and questions that I would like to talk about. And you are free to do the same, so it is an open dialogue on both ends.
Let me start with my side of it.
You have a very unique coinage of certain things such as “ox-therapist”, “fetish” and so forth. Key words, phrases, concepts that are very Marshall-esque. Then, there are still unique but familiar terms that I can easily understand their meaning. When you use the term “treatment resistance” for example, it's self-explanatory for me because I was a part of that language ecology.
Then you make some comments that I also have immediate associations too, like “Winnicottian haze”. It has been my contention that Winnicott was prominent and dominating when you and I were working together. Having said that, it is a theoretical attribution. Thus, my immediate question was “how did he understand that?” That is something I am very curious to hear about, I don't have a sense you read too much, right?
MD: No, not at all. Some basic papers here and there maybe.
MSK: Another thought is you take psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic work seriously and I was not aware that you had given so much thought to it, on this level. So that came as a pleasant surprise.Yo