Winnicott
Analysis has shifted from being about a person’s relationship to other people to being more about this.
What are the patients fantasies about internal objects?
According to Betty Joseph, the part of the patient really needing to be understood can only be accessed using this method.
What is interpreting the transference? Or by understanding the pressures brought to bear on the therapist during the session that are experienced by the therapist as counter-transference.
Bion coined a name for the experience of a baby who does not have a mind to project their distress into, thereby having nothing that could render it meaningful.
What is “nameless dread”?
The two general reasons why clients might not pay their balance.
What are clinical and financial reasons?
The analyst must look for these in order to enable the patient to become angry, perhaps for the first time, about traumatic events in their early life.
What are the analyst’s mistakes?
According to Garland, this is part of the reason why trauma is so traumatizing.
What is confirming unconscious fantasies about upsetting object relationions? Or, confirming a person’s worst fears about people and life.
This word describes the appearance of being grown-up without the internal emotional capacities of adulthood.
What is pseudo-maturity?
The two update sections on the weekly summary
What are ‘4+ unpaid invoices’ and ‘last appointment 4+ weeks ago’?
If a therapist does this, the patient misses out on the chance to be angry about past failures.
What is becoming defensive?
Piontellli used ultrasounds to research infant behavior in utero in order to look for evidence of this.
What is the presence of individual character and mental life before birth?
This phenomenon occurs when someone constructs identity through external imitation—‘as-if’ adulthood—rather than through internal emotional development, often relying on surface cohesion to contain anxiety.
What is second-skin functioning?
What to do if you need approval for session fees under $40 (and approval of CE reimbursement).
Email Kristin from Dr. Walcott-Rounds?
According to Winnicott, it is through this that “we can hope to keep in touch with our primitive selves whence the most intense feelings and even fearfully acute sensations derive.”
What is artistic expression?
An internalized good mother allows a person to do this, rather than being caught up and overwhelmed by anxieties.
What is the ability to think about anxieties?
Bion’s terms for modes of functioning representing a genuine thirst for knowledge vs. knowledge treated as a commodity.
What is K and -K?
Do this with recurring appointments.
What is something you delete in TN when terminating a client?
In early life, an integrated sense of self is, in part, built up through these interactions.
What are quiet experiences of body care?
A traumatized individual interprets these as actual danger.
What are warning signs (symbols) of potential danger? This is how trauma causes difficulties in symbolization, as a breakdown in internal containment collapses signal anxiety and danger.
Waddell describes two types of learning; "thinking in the mind" versus "thinking in the marrow bone." "Thinking in the mind" refers to cognitive, intellectual understanding, while "thinking in the marrow bone" signifies a deep, emotional, and bodily integration of experience. These are two types of learning according to Waddell.
What is learning ability (thinking in the mind) vs. learning capacity (thinking in the marrow bone)?
The Suite number for the Chase building management.
What is 302A?