Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience: Time, Space, Number and State of Mind

by Stadter; Michael

• ISBN13: 9781583918630
• ISBN10: 1583918639
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy--time, space and number--summarizing theory, setting it in context and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations. Michael Stadter and David Scharff bring together contributions describing how each of these elements, as well as their simple and direct manifestations in the physical world, also combine to form the psychological dimensions of symbolic reality both in the inner world and in the transactional world. They also reveal how, in encounters between patient and therapist, the combination of inner worlds form a new, uniquely psychological, fourth dimension that saturates the activity and experience of the other three elements. This book aims to increase understanding of the action of the three dimensions of psychotherapy by looking at the elements that constitute the setting and process in which clinicians engage everyday. The psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions toclinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material and examining their impact on general treatment issues. This clear and readable investigation into the impact of the dimensions of time, space, number and state of mind will be of interest to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction: Exploring the dimensions	1	(6)
Michael Stadter
David E. Scharff
PART I Time
Time, life and psychotherapy: an overview	7	(6)
Michael Stadter
David E. Scharff
Time and the unconscious life-cycle	13	(12)
Kent Ravenscroft
Time-near and time-far: the changing shape of time in trauma and psychotherapy	25	(14)
Michael Stadter
Bad infinity: narcissism and the problem of time	39	(12)
Leslie A. Johnson
Time and endurance in psychotherapy	51	(16)
Lea Setton
Jill Savege Scharff
PART II Space
Spatial metaphor and spatial reality: an overview	61	(6)
Michael Stadter
David E. Scharff
Right now I'm sitting in the bookshelf: patients' use of the physical space in psychotherapy	67	(10)
Geoffrey Anderson
Changing spaces: the impact of a change in the psychotherapeutic setting	77	(12)
Judith M. Rovner
Pandora in time and space	89	(16)
Earl Hopper
Telephone, psychotherapy and the 21st century	105	(10)
Sharon Zalusky
Conquering geographic space: teaching psychoanalytic psychotherapy and infant observation by video link	115	(12)
David E. Scharff
Exploring space in workgroups	127	(16)
Susan E. Barbour
PART III Number
Numbers in mind, numbers in motion: an introduction	139	(4)
David E. Scharff
Michael Stadter
Number theory, intersubjectivity and schizoid phenomena	143	(10)
James L. Poulton
Super-vision or space invader? Two's company and three makes for paranoid tendencies	153	(12)
Carl Bagnini
Four: on adding up to a family	165	(16)
Christopher Bollas
Dynamic mathematics in mental experience. I: Complex numbers represent psychic object relations	181	(14)
David E. Scharff
Hope Cooper
Dynamic mathematics in mental experience. II: Numbers in motion, a dynamic geography of time and space	195	(16)
David E. Scharff
Hope Cooper
PART IV State of mind
The fourth dimension: state of mind	209	(2)
David E. Scharff
Michael Stadter
Chaos theory and object relations: a new paradigm for psychoanalysis	211	(18)
David E. Scharff
Jill Savege Scharff
Hideouts and holdouts	229	(12)
Sheila Hill
Being and becoming	241	(12)
Charles Ashbach
The use of the self revisited	253	(16)
Theodore J. Jacobs
Epilogue	269	(2)
Michael Stadter
David E. Scharff
Index	271