Despair and hope: on some varieties of countertransference and enactment in the psychoanalysis of ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) children
| Autor: | Joshua Durban |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapist Unconscious mind Autistic spectrum disorder media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Somatic Hallucinations Feeling Mental space Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Autism Girl Countertransference Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 40:187-200 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9370 0075-417X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0075417x.2014.922755 |
| Popis: | This article attempts to deal with the feelings of despair and hope in the analyses of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) children. The analyst’s therapeutic despair and hope might reflect both the child’s split-off and fragmented primitive unconscious phantasies regarding traumatic breakdown, as well as his or her hidden search for reparation. This autistic reparation involves the phantasised acquisition of bodily and mental coverage and containing forms. These phantasies are deposited in the analyst and are manifested in various, sometimes hallucinatory, states of body and mind. The analyst’s ability to move freely between states of despair and hope is thus a crucial factor in maintaining mental space, in reaching for a better understanding of the child and in promoting his development. Using clinical material drawn from two analyses of a young girl and a male adolescent, the article describes the analyst’s countertransference reactions of somatic hallucinations and the phantasies regarding ‘the virtual c... |
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