Engaging, and Accompanying, the Pain of Others

An excerpt from Robert Grossmark’s The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst

Robert Grossmark's The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst introduces a new psychoanalytic register for working with such patients and states, involving a present and engaged analyst who is unobtrusive to the unfolding of the patient’s inner world and the flow of mutual enactments. For the unobtrusive relational analyst, the world and idiom of ...
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When Psychoanalysis Needs to Adapt to the Patient

An Interview with Robert Grossmark

Psychoanalysts increasingly find themselves working with patients who seem to defy verbal and dialogic engagement. Such patients are challenging for a psychoanalytic approach that assumes that the patient relates in the verbal realm and is capable of reflective functioning. Both the classical stance of neutrality and abstinence and a contemporary ...
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When Psychoanalysis Needs to Adapt to the Patient