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Dear Sir:
It has been brought to my attention by Dr. Jonathan Cohen that in my 1989 article, 'Preoedipal reconstructions in psychoanalysis' (Int. J. Psychoanal., 70: 433–442), in quoting myself (p. 440) from an earlier 1973 article 'On attachment to painful feelings and the negative therapeutic reaction' (Psychoanal. Study Child, 28: 363–392), I inadvertently departed from the original text (p. 390), as follows:
psychoanalytic interpretations (in the usual sense) … cannot really reach the preverbal-earliest verbal level of development … However, if the therapist persists in working towards the possibility that the patient can and will progressively and adaptively use both what is recapitulated and articulately remembered and what is behaviorally recapitulated and reconstructed from the time when it cannot be literally remembered, then the outcome might be the achievement of a significant measure of corrective experiential re-education supplemented by cognitive understanding, i.e. mutative insight.
The quotation should actually have read:
psychoanalytic interpretations … cannot really reach the preverbal-earliest verbal level of development … However, if the therapist persists in working toward the possibility that the patient can and will progressively and adaptively use both what is recapitulated and articulately remembered, and what is behaviorally recapitulated and reconstructed from the time when it cannot be literally remembered, then the outcome might be the achievement of a significant measure of corrective experiential re-education supplemented by cognitive understanding.
Sincerely yours,