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Shrinkage--quotes
At some point, I decided recently, I want to write a book entitled something like Psychoanalytic Concepts in Plain English. And it will explain all of these interesting ideas in human terms, words of one syllable, such that they stop being abstract and actually make sense.
One part of it, I think, will be to have lots of quoted passages-- from memoirs and fiction and such-- that demonstrate each concept.
This will be one of the ones for "transference."
From In Confidence: Four Years of Therapy Roberta Isrealoff, 1990, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
"Concurrently, I understood that there were two therapists in the room with me-- Dr. Marks, who never judged me, who never reacted in ways I could have predicted but never let me down; and the person I was always on the verge of expecting Dr. Marks to become, a woman who did nothing but judge me and react to me in horribly predictable ways.
"Sometimes I would catch myself anticipating Dr. Marks's transformation. In the middle of a confession what I was saying would take on a much larger resonance, as if I had suddenly begun speaking through a megaphone, broadcasting backward in my life toward incidents long past. Both Dr. Marks and I would sit suspended as I tried to identify who I was really talking to. I felt at these moments like an archaeologist stumbling upon a mound that contained a wealth of relics-- "We found it!" Now all we have to do is sift through the trove piece by piece, first removing the layer of soil that hides the treasure's real worth."
It is possible someone has already written such a book. In which case, I hope someone points it out to me before I do too much work on this one. Grin.
--R
One part of it, I think, will be to have lots of quoted passages-- from memoirs and fiction and such-- that demonstrate each concept.
This will be one of the ones for "transference."
From In Confidence: Four Years of Therapy Roberta Isrealoff, 1990, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
"Concurrently, I understood that there were two therapists in the room with me-- Dr. Marks, who never judged me, who never reacted in ways I could have predicted but never let me down; and the person I was always on the verge of expecting Dr. Marks to become, a woman who did nothing but judge me and react to me in horribly predictable ways.
"Sometimes I would catch myself anticipating Dr. Marks's transformation. In the middle of a confession what I was saying would take on a much larger resonance, as if I had suddenly begun speaking through a megaphone, broadcasting backward in my life toward incidents long past. Both Dr. Marks and I would sit suspended as I tried to identify who I was really talking to. I felt at these moments like an archaeologist stumbling upon a mound that contained a wealth of relics-- "We found it!" Now all we have to do is sift through the trove piece by piece, first removing the layer of soil that hides the treasure's real worth."
It is possible someone has already written such a book. In which case, I hope someone points it out to me before I do too much work on this one. Grin.
--R