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- Title
Ein Schmetterling, der seine Farben selbst wählt Intuition, psychosomatische Inszenierung und Visualisierung.
- Authors
Kohon, Sebastian
- Abstract
Knowledge arising from the clinician’s bodily sensations and visual imagination are considered through a clinical example where disruption to the setting culminated in the psychotherapist developing temporarily incapacitating physical symptoms in the consulting room. A subsequent imaginative visualisation allowed the clinician to attribute meaning to the moment of rupture, thus allowing her to use this bodily reaction as a way of gaining intuitive insight into the patient’s emotional state. This process is understood with reference to Bleger’s (1967) ideas about the setting as an institution, Lemma’s (2014) work on the embodied setting, and Sapisochin’s (2013, 2019) notion of enactments as representations of psychic gestures. Another example from the literature is used to further the suggestion that the clinician’s visual imagination can sometimes be used to enable a differentiation from a fusional aspect of the transference – countertransference dynamic and thereby increase their understanding of the patient.
- Subjects
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology); EMOTIONAL state; PSYCHOTHERAPISTS; IMAGINATION; GESTURE; SENSES
- Publication
Jahrbuch der Psychoanalys Psychosozial-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (Psychosozial-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG), 2023, Issue 87, p17
- ISSN
0075-2363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30820/0075-2363-2023-2-17