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A collection of detailed case studies, this book is written by an Argentinian analyst with 30 years of experience in the psychoanalytic treatment of regressed, borderline, psychotic, drug-addicted, and other severely disturbed patients. He was trained and practices in Buenos Aires, where he is a professor in the medical school of the University of Buenos Aires. His theoretical orientation and clinical style are based in the Kleinian school and demonstrate creative use of theory and technique derived not only from Freud and Klein, but also from such authors as Bion, Winnicott, Boyer, Green, Rosenfeld, Searles, and Tustin. He has lived and studied in Paris and London and served as vice-president of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Rosenfeld is a passionate, dedicated, and exquisitely perceptive analyst. Throughout these case studies, he demonstrates what Thomas Ogden, in his foreword, describes as his extraordinary way of becoming the analyst that he intuits the patient needs at any given juncture of analysis. The great virtue of these essays is that Rosenfeld has described these various treatments in such detail that the reader can accompany him step by step in his psychoanalytic work, from the verbatim recounting of his interpretive interventions to the analysis of his own countertransference states. In this way, the book provides a revealing self-portrait of a masterful analyst at work as well as an instructive opportunity to observe the ways he uses the Kleinian framework to conceptualize his patients, formulate dynamics, and conduct the treatment. Of particular interest to modern psychoanalysts is Rosenfeld's use of transference interpretation, the rationale behind it, and the explicit language in which it is conveyed to the patient.
The patient Abelard was 18 months old when his parents were kidnapped by agents of the Pinochet military dicatorship in Chile, taken to a secret detention center, and tortured. The infant was handed over to a neighbor. H