The Healer's Bent

Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter

James McLaughlin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781134914418
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as the very material from which we fashion meaningful lives. His unique, iconoclastic perspective, which challenged the conventions of his time and professional milieu, not only engages the creative tension between the stance of the analyst and the stance of the healer, but also contains striking intimations of contemporary relational and interpersonal models of psychoanalytic treatment. The Healer's Bent, which thematically integrates published and unpublished papers and contains three chapters of heretofore unpublished autobiographical reflection, bridges analytic practice and other psychotherapeutic modalities. It will make McLaughlin's distinct approach to clinical theory and practice widely available to a broad and receptive readership.

INDEX

A

abandonment

fear of, 28, 129, 134

of past expectations, 99

rejection and, 23

silences as, 46

abreactions, to emotional material, 79

acceptance, 49–50, 80, 152

to facing truth, 39

healing and, 19

need for, 21, 24–25, 179, 210

rejection outweighed by hope of, 19, 24–25, 26, 28

to repair trauma from shame, 51

acting-in, 13, 166, 168

acting-out, 13, 166, 168

countertransference and, 13, 39, 188, 193

enactments v., 198

nonpayment as, 85

adaptations

acquired in analysis, 67–68

analysts’, 29, 30, 34, 76, 95, 97, 219

through analytic ways of knowing, 188

ego in determining defense and, 61

Ms. Q’s, 80

of narcissistically tinged I–It mode, 160

adolescence, 7, 63, 65, 171

father’s death during, 125, 128

McLaughlin’s, 93, 106, 214, 218

Mr. B’s, 96

Mr. F’s, 208, 209

Mrs. P’s, 189

sexuality and, 134, 171, 214, 218

adult analysis

infant observation studies and, 12, 139–153

mother–infant research link with, 13

transference and, 65

Aesculapius, myth of, 27

affect attunement, 146, 151, 152

aggression

analysts’, 8, 19, 29, 60, 97

Freud on, 61

Mr. B’s, 91, 96, 99, 126

Mr. F’s, 208

neutralization processes and, 61

passivity and, 91, 126, 134

sexuality and, 157, 159, 160–161, 162, 163, 166–167

shaming/shunning and, 25, 30

AIDS, 15, 211, 213

altruism, 20, 26, 102, 161

American psychoanalysis, 3, 5, 12, 40, 43–44, 61–62...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments Above and Beyond
• Editor's Introduction Deep in the Shed—An Analyst's Mind at Work
• Chapter 1 To the Reader
• Chapter 2 What Was Brought
• Chapter 3 What Was Taught
• Chapter 4 Transference, Psychic Reality, and Countertransference
• What Was Wrought: Self-Analysis
• Chapter 5 Looking Back at an Early Case Failure What There Was Yet to Learn
• Chapter 6 The Analyst's Insights
• Chapter 7 Is Self-Analysis Possible?
• What Was Sought: Nonverbal Communication
• Chapter 8 The Play of Transference Some Reflections on Enactment in the Psychoanalytic Situation
• Chapter 9 The Search for Meaning in the Unsaid Seen
• Chapter 10 Touching Limits in the Analytic Dyad
• What was Thought: The Dialectics of Influence
• Chapter 11 Dumb, Blind, and Hard Can an Analyst Change His Spots?
• Chapter 12 Through the Glass Darkly On Influencing and Being Influenced
• References
• Index
• List of Contributors