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Psychoanalytic Collisions

Author(s) : Joyce A. Slochower

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In finely wrought examinations of these eventualities, Slochower is guided by the belief that collisions are intrinsic both to forging an analytic identity and to practicing in a manner consonant with that identity. Psychoanalytic collisions, she enjoins, often cannot be resolved, but they can usually be productively engaged. And the very act of engagement - be it establishing new grounds for collaboration in the wake of real-world catastrophe, or wrestling with clinical impasse grounded in the radically divergent expectations of analyst and patient, or owning up to what Slochower terms "secret delinquencies" - can provide the basis for a vision of the "good enough" analyst in which therapeutic hopefulness coexists with acceptance of the analyst's all-too-human fallibility.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Hope and Limits in Psychoanalysis. Part I: Personal/Professional Struggles. Therapeutic Illusions. Negotiating a Professional Idiom. Creating Inner Space: The Psychoanalytic Writer. The Analyst's Secret Delinquencies. Part II: Collisions in the Therapeutic Encounter. Existential Crises in the Consulting Room. Emotional Collisions. Asymmetrical and Colliding Idealizations. The Ideal and the Actual.