The Emergence of Hope: Implicit Spirituality in Treatment and the Occurrence of Psychoanalytic Luck

Domash, Leanne

doi:10.1521/prev.2009.96.1.35

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“…Lichtenberg (2001, p. 445) discusses "disciplined spontaneous engagements" in an atmosphere of safety where "communications seem more to pop out than to have been planned or edited." In a recent paper (Domash, 2009), I discuss how this unconscious freedom develops in the deep trust between patient and analyst where a play space for imagery is created. This helps lower the patient's defensiveness and perhaps the analyst's as well.…”

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“…The following is a brief, everyday clinical example, which I have discussed elsewhere (Domash, 2009). When Ms. T, a depressed 35-year-old woman, first came to treatment, she was in an abusive marital relationship.…”

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“…I have discussed the ability to access this emotional "aha" as an embodiment of unconscious freedom (Domash, 2009) and similarly, Symington (1983) refers to the analyst's inner freedom. In my view, unconscious freedom is the ability to function in the implicit relational realm, the nonverbal, frequently nonconscious or subliminal relationship between analyst and patient, with empathy and sensitivity while still remaining relatively free of anxiety.…”

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Unconscious Freedom and the Insight of the Analyst: Exploring Neuropsychological Processes Underlying “Aha” Moments

Domash¹

2010

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynam

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This article explores the insight of the analyst and the concept of unconscious freedom. By insight, the author is referring to those sudden bursts of realization, the "aha" phenomena. Arising from the unconscious of the analyst, these emotional insights can help break an impasse or curtail an enactment. Unconscious freedom is the analyst's ability to function in the implicit or unconscious relational realm with empathy and sensitivity while relatively free of anxiety. This freedom facilitates the emotional "aha." Clinical examples are given. Recent research in neuroscience illuminates these processes, prominently the role of the right hemisphere. Although we are in the early stages of the integration of neuroscience findings and the actual practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this article offers provisional commentary. The author posits that by understanding the neuropsychological aspects of insight and unconscious freedom, analysts will be better able to facilitate this process in themselves.

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