The task of the workshop was to explore those salient factors in the training climates of psychoanalytic institutes which tend to facilitate or inhibit personal and professional growth. P. M. Bromberg, Ph.D., was chairman of the round table discussion.
But projecting it on to his object now makes the object a dreaded source of danger; self protection is once again sought by distancing, and by withdrawal—again the state of aloneness is faced [p. 130].”
Adler (1973), The uses of confrontation in the psychotherapy of borderline cases, in Confrontation in Psychotherapy, G. Adler and P. G. Myerson, Eds., Science House, New York.
Bromberg, P. M. (in press), The schizoid personality: The psychopathology of stability, in Integrating Ego Psychology and Object Relations Theory, D.
She advances the position that although Sullivan "has rejected half of the dialectic of human being … the unique self whose aims are individuation and experience of the other" (p. 133), there is room within the theory for the gap to be bridged just as it is inevitably bridged clinically "in every unique psychoanalytic experience that is genuinely far reaching and mutative in nature" (p. 135).
Winnicott (1962, p. 166) stated that his motto was to ask how little need be done rather than how much can one be allowed to do.
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As I have elaborated elsewhere (Bromberg, 1991), I take as axiomatic a “view of reality as structured through the active interplay between two people with independent centers of subjectivity” (p. 11).
She felt in a void and/or empty of herself in the presence of people who … failed to recognize that she was in another world” (p. 474). In her discussion of my paper Mrs.
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When I was young,” Mark Twain wrote, “I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”
All that we were/see ourselves as/wish to be is caught up in the analytic relationship, as it is for the patient [p. 639].If one were to judge solely by the unfettered spirit in which McLaughlin's observation was made and by his casual use of the term analytic relationship, it would be difficult to recognize the historical significance conveyed by both the spirit and the language.
Therefore, it is not truth about the therapeutic relationship which the patient needs … but readiness to reshuffle the relationship in various ways” (p. 382; italics added). This view of reality as structured through active interplay between two people with independent centers of subjectivity is axiomatic to any relational perspective.
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since it is impossible to determine how long an affect has to be experienced before it can be resolved" (p. 6).What is an analyst to do?
Feiner (1982, p. 397), for example, in a paper entitled "Comments on the Difficult Patient, " starts off by saying that "perhaps it isn't the word 'difficult' that we ought to consider but the word 'the'