The Dream's Mirror of Reality

Abrams, David M.

doi:10.1080/00107530.1992.10746737

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“…Levenson (1972Levenson ( , 1983) made a similar observation that in the course of discussing a dream in analysis, the themes are often concurrently being enacted in the interpersonal situation. Abrams (1992) says of Levenson's work that "nearly all his clinical examples take up the interaction of the figures in the content of a dream as a direct commentary on the actual analytic interaction, which in turn is a replay of the patient's other interactions" (p. 59).…”

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What Constitutes Therapeutic Knowledge and How We Believe it is to Be Attained

Robbins¹

2008

Smith College Studies in Social Work

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What we know in psychoanalytically-informed therapy and its relationship to how we know has become the source of heated debate between "classical" and "relational" analysts. There is agreement that a goal of treatment is to make maladaptive unconscious elements of personality conscious, especially in the realm of human relationships, including that with the therapist. However, belief in the quest for objective reality and truth about one's patient and oneself (correspondence) has gradually been replaced with the idea that how and what we know involves construction of coherent and pragmatically satisfying narratives from consciously and unconsciously interacting subjectivities (coherence, narrative truth). The debate has generally been conducted on philosophical grounds having to do with the nature of reality. It is more fruitful to examine how the mind works and whether different but equally valid kinds of knowledge emerge from different but equally valid ways of knowing. Objectifying epistemology is heavily influenced by secondary process thought, whereas relational epistemology is tilted in the direction of primary process expression. Each epistemological perspective relates to qualitatively distinctive aspects of unconscious mind, and it is a particular challenge for the therapist to find a way to give both their due.

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What Constitutes Therapeutic Knowledge and How We Believe it is to Be Attained

Robbins¹

2008

Smith College Studies in Social Work

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“…The fifth dimension is interpersonal object relations, the subject's relationship to parental figures, peers, and junior figures. This relates to Freud's concept of the degree to which an individual libidinally cathects the world of other people (Thomas & Dudek, 1985) as well as how these interpersonal relationships are represented as self and object representations or images in the internal world of unconscious fantasy, as developed by the British school of object-relations theory (Abrams, 1991(Abrams, , 1992aBellak, 1986Bellak, , 1993. It is also the dimension of Sullivan's interpersonal theory, which focuses specifically en underlying unconscious latent content.…”

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Pathological narcissism in an eight-year-old boy: An example of Bellak's TAT and CAT diagnostic system.

Abrams¹

1993

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Narcissistic pathology is difficult to assess in psychological testing of children and adults. Contemporary psychoanalytic diagnosis is based on Freud's (1915) metapsychological points of view and A. Freud's (1965) developmental profile, as in Schafer's (1954) Rorschach approach and Bellak's (1986) system for the Thematic Apperception Test and Children's Apperception Test. Bellak (1986) provided an analysis of the relation of the ego (self-concept characteristics of the main hero, conception of the world, interpersonal object relations, defense mechanisms, and 12 ego functions), id (thematic analysis, needs, anxieties, and significant conflicts), and superego. A case example of narcissistic pathology in a young child's Children's Apperception Test demonstrates this method of psychoanalytic diagnosis. Neurotic conditions have been extensively studied in the projective test literature. The past decade has witnessed a revival of psychoanalytic studies of Rorschach test characteristics of patients with the preoedipal condition of borderline pathology (

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“…Most interpersonalists would begin by looking at the interaction implied in the dream (Levenson, 1983(Levenson, , 1991Ehrenberg, 1992;Abrams, 1992). What is happening between oneself and the pa tient and how the dream reflects some aspect of the reality of the analytic setting and process.…”

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The Clinical Use of the Analyst's Dreams of the Patient

Watson

1994

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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The Dream's Mirror of Reality

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

What Constitutes Therapeutic Knowledge and How We Believe it is to Be Attained

What Constitutes Therapeutic Knowledge and How We Believe it is to Be Attained

Pathological narcissism in an eight-year-old boy: An example of Bellak's TAT and CAT diagnostic system.

The Clinical Use of the Analyst's Dreams of the Patient

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