Truth and Psychic Change

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Psychic Change

Review of Psychic Structure and Psychic Change.

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1065-1065
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Psychic Structure ◽  
Psychic Change

Psychic Change in Psychoanalysis

1977 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Brenner ◽  
Allan Compton
Keyword(s):  
Psychic Change

Presence, Mourning, and Beauty: Elements of Analytic Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 979-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry C. Markman
Keyword(s):  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Internal Work ◽  
Analytic Process ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Psychic Change ◽  
Mourning Process

Analyst and patient occasionally arrive at moments of heightened meaning and aliveness. These moments can be transformative and lead to psychic change in the patient. They give life and arouse hope, and feel “real” in a new way, though often entailing emotional turbulence. Specific internal work must be done by the analyst to allow for and foster these experiences. This involves a kind of mourning process in the analyst that allows for “presence” and “availability” as described by Gabriel Marcel, and for the “at-one-ment” described by Bion. These transforming moments can be viewed in an aesthetic realm, along the lines of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” This embodies the analytic value of emotional truth. These moments are shared and their emergence is an intersubjective creation. Clinical illustrations show how the internal work of mourning by the analyst through directed introspection allows for presence and availability, and then for shared moments of beauty with the patient.

Getting Better: Impediments and Aids to Psychic Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-539
Author(s):  
Margaret Crastnopol
Keyword(s):  
Psychic Change
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