How do the fundamental elements of experience impact on the practice of psychotherapy?
Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy - time, space and number - summarising 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 our 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 every day. The contributors, all of whom are experienced psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions to clinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material and examining their impact on general treatment issues.
This book will be useful to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Exploring the Dimensions 1 Michael Stadter, PhD and David E. Scharff, MD
TIME
Time, Life and Psychotherapy
Michael Stadter, PhD and David E. Scharff, MD
1. Time and the Unconscious Life Cycle
Kent Ravenscroft, MD
2. Time-Near and Time-Far: The Changing Shape of Time in Trauma
and Psychotherapy
Michael Stadter, PhD
3. Bad Infinity: Narcissism and the Problem of Time
Leslie Johnson, PhD, LPC
4. Time and Endurance in Psychotherapy
Lea Setton, PhD and Jill Savege Scharff, MD
SPACE
Spatial Metaphor and Spatial Reality
Michael Stadter, PhD and David E. Scharff, MD
5. Right Now I’m Sitting in the Bookshelf: Patients’ Use of Physical Space
in Psychotherapy
Geoffrey Anderson, PhD
6. Changing Spaces: The Impact of a Change in the Psychotherapeutic Setting
Judith M. Rovner, MSW
7. Pandora in Time and Space
Earl Hopper, PhD
8. Telephone, Psychotherapy and the 21st Century
Sharon Zalusky, PhD
9. Conquering Geographic Space: Teaching Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
and Infant Observation by Video Link
David E. Scharff, MD
10. Exploring Space in Workgroups
Susan Barbour, EdD
NUMBER
Numbers in Mind, Numbers In Motion: An Introduction
David E. Scharff, MD and Michael Stadter, PhD
11. Number Theory, Intersubjectivity and Schizoid Phenomena
James Poulton, PhD
12. Super-Vision or Space Invader? Two’s Company and Three Makes for
Paranoid Tendencies
Carl Bagnini, MSW, BCD
13. Fourth Object: On Adding Up to a Family
Christopher Bollas
14. Dynamic Mathematics in Mental Experience Part I: Complex
Numbers Represent Psychic Object Relations
David E. Scharff, MD and Hope Cooper, MSW
15. Dynamic Mathematics in Mental Experience Part II: Numbers in Motion,
a Dynamic Geography of Time and Space
David E. Scharff, MD and Hope Cooper, MSW
STATES OF MIND
The Fourth Dimension: State of Mind
David E. Scharff, MD and Michael Stadter, PhD
16. Chaos Theory and Object Relations: A New Paradigm for Psychoanalysis
David E. Scharff, MD and Jill Savege Scharff, MD
17. Hideouts and Holdouts
Sheila Hill, MSW
18. Being and Becoming
Charles Ashbach, PhD:
19. The Use of the Self Revisited
Theodore J. Jacobs, MD
Epilogue
Michael Stadter, PhD and David E. Scharff, MD
