On Coming Into Possession of Oneself: Witnessing and the Formulation of Experience

Stern, Daniel N.

doi:10.1080/00332828.2022.2153528

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“…That is, we do not solve the problem via the interpretive analysis of transference or countertransference. I believe, and have argued many times (see, e.g., Stern 2004Stern , 2010Stern , 2015Stern , 2022b, that enactment is breached via an unbidden shift in our perception of the other, ourselves, and the nature of the interaction between us. In my experience, this shift is routinely nonverbal: it happens.…”

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“…But even more significant, in the long run, is the "internal witnessing" that takes place inside minds, as one part of oneself observes, recognizes, and tolerates another (Stern 2009, in press). I have described the idea recently (Stern 2022b) in these words:…”

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“…Embeddedness in the other is discussed as mutual enactment. This use of these phenomena in treatment is articulated in the theory of witnessing presented elsewhere in recent years (Stern 2009(Stern , 2012(Stern , 2022b. A detailed clinical illustration is presented.…”

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“…1 The German-language version of the theoretical portion appeared in a special issue of the Jahrbuch devoted to the theme of distance in psychoanalysis (Stern 2022a). At the request of the Jahrbuch's editor, the German-language version of the clinical illustration that appears at the end of that article was broken off from the rest of the paper and published separately in the following issue (Stern 2023), with several commentaries. I thank the Jahrbuch for permission to publish in JAPA this very heavily revised, English-language version of the two articles, now reunited in a single essay.…”

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“…But humans go further: we perceive our own act of perception; we perceive ourselves perceiving. In my recent presentation of a similar theme (Stern 2022b), we "come into possession of ourselves. "…”

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Distance And Relation: Emerging From Embeddedness In The Other

Stern

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Inspired by an essay by Martin Buber (1950), and then by the work of Ernest Schachtel (1959) on the idea of “embeddedness” and emergence from it, this essay is an account of the role of “distance” or “separateness” in clinical psychoanalytic work. We tend to assume that the capacity to appreciate otherness is always already present. We often lose track of the necessity to “set the other at a distance” (Buber), the prerequisite for emergence from embeddedness in the other. The entire process—i.e., setting the other at a distance and then emerging from embeddedness in the other—must take place over and over again in any treatment, and in both directions: patients must disembed from analysts, but it is just as necessary for analysts to disembed from patients. It is the emergence from embeddedness that allows the analyst’s appreciation of the patient’s otherness. Embeddedness in the other is discussed as mutual enactment. This use of these phenomena in treatment is articulated in the theory of witnessing presented elsewhere in recent years (Stern 2009, 2012, 2022b, in press). A detailed clinical illustration is presented.

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