ABSTRACT
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis presents a new stage of the work done through the IPA Committee on Clinical Observation between 2014 and 2020—the advances in our method, the Three Level Model (3-LM), and our clinical thinking.
In this new volume, ideas on observational research, clinical narratives based on 3-LM group discussions, and adaptations of the model for training candidates show more experience, more depth, more answers, and, of course, new questions. Contributors from three regions of the IPA have written extended case studies of 10 psychoanalyses, rich in verbatim session material, focusing on the main dimensions of the patient’s psychic functioning, specific changes in the analytic process, and related interventional strategies.
The reader will find, in the method and in the clinical narratives, new and clarifying points of view in the observation of transformations in patients in psychoanalysis and of the analysts’ techniques, useful both in professional development and in teaching candidates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|65 pages
Clinical thinking in psychoanalysis
chapter Chapter 1|21 pages
A common ground in clinical discussion groups
part II|42 pages
Change in metaphors and dreams
part III|43 pages
Foci of the analyst's interventions, mechanisms of change
chapter Chapter 6|17 pages
"I don't want to be like my mother"
chapter Chapter 7|24 pages
Sequence of changes and interventions in the analysis of a violent patient
part IV|46 pages
Impasse
chapter Chapter 9|23 pages
Change and impasse in a systematic case study
part V|35 pages
New uses of the 3-LM in the transmission of psychoanalysis and in professional development
part VI|34 pages
Clinical observation groups and the psychoanalysis of children
chapter Chapter 12|19 pages
Observing transformations and interventions in a child analysis through the 3-LM
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
How does a 5-year-old cope with mourning?
part VII|27 pages
Improving clinical evidence
chapter Chapter 14|25 pages
Assessing strengths and limitations of clinical evidence in a psychoanalytic clinical material
part VIII|27 pages
Three-Level Model