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Subject(s)

• Sex (Psychology) [Browse]

Editor

• Levin, Charles, 1950- [Browse]

Series

Relational perspectives book series. [More in this series]

Summary note

Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges the established psychoanalytic and mental health consensus about the sources and appropriate management of sexual boundary violations (SBV).

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Contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction: From "Eew" to We: an overview of Muriel Dimen's contribution to psychoanalytic ethics
• Part 1: Muriel Dimen's "Lapsus linguae": from Eew! to We!
• The primal crime
• The concept of a sexual boundary
• The difficulties of ethical self-reflection in the group
• Searching for the responsible "We": the problem of love in psychoanalysis
• Part 2: boundary trouble in the psychoanalytic process
• Part 3: boundary trouble in the analytic community
• References
• Part 1 The primal crime
• Chapter 2 Lapsus linguae, or a slip of the tongue?: A sexual violation in an analytic treatment and its personal and theoretica
• Introduction: the hug and the hard-on
• I. The sounds of silence
• Dr. O's help: mourning my mother
• Word and deed
• Sotto voce
• Pre-Oedipal delight, Oedipal shame
• II. Desire and the incest taboo
• Dumbshows of desire
• Intersubjectivizing Oedipus
• The analyst's refusal and the patient's desire
• Splitting the difference
• III. Conclusion: the problem that won't go away
• On not naming Dr. O
• Psychoanalysis on the spot
• A psychoanalytic transvestite
• Primal crime
• Notes
• Part 2 Boundary trouble in the psychoanalytic process
• Chapter 3 Shadows that corrupt: Present absences in the psychoanalytic process
• Erasures of the containing third
• The present absence of institutionalized power
• Erasures of the patient
• Displaced perverse scenarios
• Direct perverse scenarios
• Other shadows
• Erasing the realness of transference
• Erasing the authentic feeling of love
• Erasing the multiplicity of experience
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Sex and ethics: Protecting an enchanted space.
• Why not sex?
• Transgression
• The analyst's role and ethics
• As-if
• Transference
• Breaking the spell with passion
• An analyst in love
• Our patients are not ours to have
• Post-Oedipal desire
• The analyst's desire
• Chapter 5 The analyst's narcissism and the denial of limits
• Chapter 6 Unraveling: Betrayal and the loss of goodness in the analytic relationship1
• A tear in the fabric of time
• Losing one's past
• Complicated beginnings
• Dismay in the countertransference
• Community "disappearances"
• Part 3 Boundary trouble in the analytic community
• Chapter 7 Don't tell anyone
• Chapter 8 Dissociation among psychoanalysts about sexual boundary violations1
• The absolutist position
• The "supportive-of-sex-with-patients" position
• The "empathic-sentimental" position
• Chapter 9 Do we really need boundaries?
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-315-68296-6
• 1-317-40475-0

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