Citation

Lombardi R. Psychoanal. Q. 2005; 74(4): 1069-1099.

Affiliation

ktjfxl@tin.it

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Wiley-Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16355719

Abstract

The author discusses the four-session-a-week psychoanalysis of a patient in psychotic breakdown with outbursts of violence. The analyst's first appearance in the transference was as a "rattle" (the noise made by his shifting in his chair), which constituted undeniable evidence of corporality--first the analyst's and then the patient's--leading eventually to the awareness of there being two separate persons in the psychoanalytic relationship. This case highlights the analyst's need to function in a particular way, and to allow him- or herself to be used in a particular way, in working with very disturbed patients, where issues of the body-mind relationship and of separation from the other are often central to the analytic work.

Language: en