With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories

by Dimen; Muriel

• ISBN13: 9780415884877
• ISBN10: 041588487X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-04-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as voiced through individual political, social, and material contexts. Each chapter is a single detailed case vignette in which aspects of race, gender, sexual orientation, heritage, ethnicity - elements of the sociopolotical matrix of culture - are brought to the fore in the transference-countertransference dimension, demonstrating how they affect the analytic encounter. Additionally, discussions by three senior analysts further deconstruct patients' and analysts' cultural embeddedness as illustrated in each chapter. For the practicing clinician as well as the seasoned academic, this highly readable and intellectually compelling book clearly demonstrates that culture saturates subjective experience - something that all mental health professionals should keep in mind.

Author Biography

Muriel Dimen, Ph.D., is adjunct clinical professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and author of Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Analytic Press, 2003).

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Social Third
Melissa: Lost in a Fog, or "How Difficult Is This MOMMY Stuff, Anyway?"	p. 11
Darren and Stephen: Erotic Interludes in Political Transference	p. 19
Li-an: Wounded by War	p. 25
Mariana: An MS Patient in My Office	p. 31
Dori: "O Thou Seer, Go, Flee Thee"	p. 35
Ede: Race, the Law, and I	p. 41
Facing Reality Together: Discussion of "The Social Third"	p. 49
Interpellations
Raven: Travels in Reality	p. 67
Darren With Dominic: From the Social the Psychic	p. 75
Glenys: White or Not	p. 81
David and Jonathan: The Hostility of Discourse	p. 87
Amy: The Intersection of Body and History	p. 93
Anonymous: Floaters	p. 99
Bringing History to Mind: Discussion of "Interpellations"	p. 107
Subjective Experience, Collective Narratives
Interpellating Grace	p. 123
Darren Then Harvey: The Incest Taboo Reconsidered, the Collective Unconscious Reprised	p. 129
Asaf: 1 Am Yourself	p. 137
DeShawn: Beyond the Color Blindness in Gender	p. 143
Lynn, Ben, Lucy: Forbidden To Be	p. 149
Martha: Resignification Road	p. 155
Letters to the Authors: Discussion of "Subjective Experience, Collective Narratives"	p. 163
References	p. 181
Author Index	p. 189
Subject Index	p. 193
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