ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the concepts from Beebe, Rustin, Sorter, and Knoblauch, 'An Expanded View of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infancy and Their Application to Psychoanalysis'. The role of the face in psychoanalysis is directly linked to seeing and being seen. Research using brain imaging suggests that faces enjoy a special status in the brain, because neural activity in the temporal lobes surges twice as much when adults watch faces versus other objects. The first is a description of clinical material, from various points across the ten-year treatment, selected particularly as it is relevant to Dolores's concerns about the face and traumatic loss and mourning. About a year and a half into the treatment, when Dolores was having a great deal of trouble adjusting to seeing less frequently in person, she brought up the idea of videotaping some sessions. In the ninth and tenth years one made progress on the theme of being 'kicked out' by the presence of 'the man'.
