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C Lament

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PubMed2000

The consultation process with an adult: a child analyst's perspective.

A close examination of a consultation is presented. Such a face-to-face encounter with an adult patient can suggest a parallel with another type of treatment: child analysis. It is argued that certain ways of working with children in analysis--the gliding between the interpersonal and the intrapsychic--were especially useful in bringing this adult patient to engage in analysis. Also highlighted in this account are interventions that function not as interpretations per se but as protointerpretations aimed at arousing preconscious affect states for the purpose of bringing them into conscious experience.

Adult↗
PubMed1997

Technical issues in adolescent analysis. A Jamesian view.

When adolescent patients come to analysis with an intermingling of neurotic and developmental disturbances, the analyst's technique cannot rely solely on interpretive methods. I use two examples to illustrate alternate interventive approaches: the first is taken from the dialogue of a fictional relationship between two characters in Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, and the second is selected from excerpts of an analysis with an adolescent boy. The strategies suggested aim to destabilize anachronistic mental percepts, connect representations of the self in the present with wished-for images of the self in the future, and join split-off affects and representations of self and others.

Adolescent↗