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    Counterdreamers: Analysts Reading Themselves

    Editors: Meg Harris Williams and Miriam Botbol Acreche

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    ‘Counterdreaming’ is Donald Meltzer’s term for the psychoanalytic reverie that arises from the countertransference during the session, in response to the analysand’s own dreams and phantasies.

    The contributions in this book belong to analysts and psychotherapists of widely different ages and experience and from a variety of countries, languages, and institutional affiliations.

    Editors

    Meg Harris Williams and Miriam Botbol Acreche

    ISBN

    9781912567218

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    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

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    254

    Publication Date

    April 2018

    Subject Areas

    Psychoanalysis

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    ‘Counterdreaming’ is Donald Meltzer’s term for the psychoanalytic reverie that arises from the countertransference during the session, in response to the analysand’s own dreams and phantasies. He writes: ‘It is difficult to explain the technique of counterdreaming… I compare it with waiting in the dark for the deer, grazing at night, seen by their flashing white tails.’ This nocturnal vigilance is on the alert for movement of the quarry, part object minimal movements which with patience can be seen to form a pattern of incipient meaning cast before.

    The contributions in this book belong to analysts and psychotherapists of widely different ages and experience and from a variety of countries, languages, and institutional affiliations. Their experience of counterdreaming, sometimes in the form of actual dreams and sometimes as dreamlike reactions to specific clinical situations, makes vivid the struggles and rewards of the method. In addition to viewing the psychoanalytic session from the other partner’s vertex, they help to establish the senses in which the practice of psychoanalysis may be seen as an autobiographical art–science rather than solely investigating confidential material of the analysand. Contributions suggest it can apply also to technology-mediated analysis; and is also an appropriate way of seeing supervision situations.

    Contents

    Contents

    Introduction
    Meg Harris Williams and Miriam Botbol Acreche

    1. An awakening
    Irene Freeden

    2. Psychoanalytic listening in a case involving corneal transplantation
    Plinio Montagna

    3. On somatic communication: when trauma is not accessible as conscious memory
    Margarita Alvarez

    4. Bodily and mental dimensions of the countertransference
    Kina Meurle-Hallberg

    5. The imprisoned self
    Jeanne Magagna

    6. An encounter with eyes closed
    Nancy Moreno Dueñas

    7. Waiting in the dark
    Shifa Haq and Shalini Masih

    8. Building up clusters of meaning in counterdreaming
    Mariângela Mendes de Almeida

    9. Countertransference dreams, unthinkable anxieties, and the ending of analysis
    Bianca Lechevalier

    10. Dreamlike drawings and the countertransference
    Marina Vanali

    11. Tales from nomadic geographies: problems of psychic at-homeness
    Cenk Cokuslu

    12. Imagining undreamt and scattered selves
    Ashis Roy

    13. Dreaming face to face
    Gregory J. Stevens

    14. Counterdreaming in digital times
    Miriam Botbol Acreche and Valeria Nader

    15. Dreaming about patients: counter transference dreams
    Hila Degani

    16. Counterdreams of a psychoanalytic supervisor and researcher
    Cecilia Muñoz Vila

    17. Counterdreaming in supervision
    Miriam Botbol Acreche, Maisa Campos, and Mercè Ferrer

    References
    Name index
    Subject index

    About the Editors

    About the Editors

    Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education, working closely with Donald Meltzer. She has written and lectured extensively in the UK and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature. She is a visiting lecturer for AGIP and at the Tavistock Centre in London, and an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey.

    Miriam Botbol Acreche is a clinical psychologist and a founder member of the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona (GPB) which supervised with Donald Meltzer for many years. She works with children and adults and has a special interest in parents. She taught in Barcelona and Rosario, Argentina, where she lives now. She has published chapters in various books, such as: Teaching Meltzer: A Meltzer Reader, Bebés: experiencias desde un vértice psicoanalítico, De un taller psicoanalítico a partir de Donald Meltzer. She is the author of the books Bebé, bienvenido al mundo (0-3 años), El orgullo de descubrir (3-6 años) and Sueños, símbolos y perspectiva estética: Un trayecto psicoanalítico personal en compañía de Donald Meltzer.

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