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H R Beiser

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PubMed1996

A fifty-year follow-up of an abandoned child: a personal commentary.

A five-year-old girl came under the care of a Social Agency because of behavior problems and a severely dysfunctional family. After numerous failed placements, she was treated by the author in a State in-patient ward for a year. As an adolescent and young adult she spent eleven years in a State Institution for the Retarded. After discharge, she made contact with the author at intervals up to the age of sixty. Issues of diagnosis are discussed, as well as the dynamic basis for the long contact.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

A follow-up of child analysis. The analyst as a real person.

Thirteen cases of child analysis or intensive psychotherapy are described briefly, along with follow-up data. Seven made spontaneous contact with the analyst, some as long as thirty or forty years after the termination of treatment; three more were followed into young adulthood through reports of family, therapists, or friends; and three more made no contact. The process of internalization and preservation of the analyst as a real person is discussed, as well as why it occurs in some cases and not others. Most of the late contacts were made to obtain help in decisions regarding further treatment for self or family members.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1984

An example of self-analysis.

The literature on self-analysis indicates that it is a desirable process to cultivate postanalytically for continued self-growth, analyzing countertransference problems, and dealing with symptoms or problems of living that might arise after formal analysis is completed. A number of techniques are described, the choice of which is probably dependent on the personality of the individual who wishes to pursue self-analysis. I describe an episode of self-analysis occurring near the end of the analysis of a woman who aroused in me an unusual degree of positive feeling, at least part of which can be considered countertransference. After she had aroused negative feelings in me, she was able to deal in an affectful way with strongly repressed impulses, actually acted out in early childhood, to steal from her mother. This stimulated dreams in me that allowed me to work out guilt for hostility to my mother. A dream representing stealing her purse altered long-standing compulsive thoughts I had known meant guilt to my mother. The self-analysis was not undertaken to deal with a countertransference problem, but arose out of it to deal with a symptom, or old conflict, 25 years after the completion of formal analysis.

Adult↗