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The editors have chosen five articles submitted to Modern Psychoanalysis describing case treatments based on variant theoretical approaches. Evelyn Liegner's article, Solving a Problem of Counter-transference Resistance in a Case of Psychosis, describes several joining and reflecting techniques used by this modern psychoanalyst to resolve a difficult resistance. Lawrence Friedman's paper, Marie Coleman Nelson's Paradigmatic Therapy: A Variant Reading, critiques a transcribed therapy hour of Marie Coleman Nelson and gives his views on the consequences in the patient-analyst relationship of this analyst's style of communicating.
Coexisting definitions and descriptions of events in psychotherapy have led to an impasse, according to Martin Fisher. In The Shared Experience: A Theory of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Fisher discusses the concepts of trust and mutuality and their use in therapy from the existentialist's point of view.
In Melanoma: Its Relationship to Inner Emptiness in a Psychoanalytic Case Study, Martin Kahleyss attempts to uncover the roots of a cancer patient's organic illness in emotional disturbances of infancy. The significance of feelings of emptiness to her illness is connected with the inability to picture the missing part object. Kahleyss summarizes his exploration of the symbolic representations produced by his patient during 275 sessions.
In James B. McCarthy's article, Infantile Narcissism: a Study of Symbiosis and Aggression in Borderline Children, his perceptive study of the canine hero in Jack London's Call of the Wild details the analysis of the narcissistic interaction between dog and master as it parallels this kind of interaction in humans.
P.W.M.