Bion
Undigested bits of experience.
It has to be done without acknowledgement of guilt. (Segal)
What is a manic repair?
An ineffectual agreement between therapist and patient to refrain from suicide.
8-10
Denying the value of an object and feeling that the object is not worthy of guilt, and thus justifying further attacks.
What is contempt?
A state of mind in which the mother is in touch with the baby’s evacuations or communications of pain and pleasure, to modulate these states and to calmly consider them, and to hand back to the infant something more tolerable.
What is reverie?
The conflict between a person's innate wish to connect and thrive versus their innate tendencies to dissolve, disconnect and not-be. (Roth)
What are the life and death instincts?
A quality that makes teens vulnerable to risky behavior.
What is omnipotence?
Apply payments, apply credits, delete invoices.
What are things only Kristin does?
Hopefully experienced in infancy from a mother’s care that is both reliable and responsive, and an internal outcome from a successful therapeutic relationship.
What is containment?
Bion drew upon this prototype for learning.
What is the feeding relationship between the mother and baby.
He said: "Projecting his desire on the black man, the white man behaves as if the black man actually has them."
Who is Franz Fanon? (From Black Skin, White Masks p. 143)
What gets projected onto others when they are recruited to be responsible for one's life.
What is the wish to live?
The appointment date and the invoice date.
What are two things that should match in my ledger?
Creativity results from this core impulse.
What is reparation?
A thirst for knowledge and a metal state in which experience is stripped of its true meaning and where knowledge is treated as a commodity.
What is K and -K.
She said: "The patient communicates his psychic world to the analyst by experiencing it and reliving it in the transference"
Who is Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm?
What some suicide attempts seek to actually get rid of from the standpoint of unconscious phantasy.
What are the bad parts of the self?
The first thing you should do when seeing a new couple.
When should I notify the billing manger of a new couple?
In the therapeutic relationship, THIS could be felt as an intrusion into an unconscious idealized mommy/baby union.
What is paying the fee.
The experience of a baby who does not have a mind available to project into.
What is nameless dread?
He said: "Analysis has no more to do with promoting the patient's 'good' superego than it does with promoting his 'bad' one. Both are equally archaic."
Who is Robert Caper?
Two interrelated aspects of suicide.
What is an attack upon an object and simultaneously a punishment of the self for all its sadistic and cruel
attacks upon the object?
A place to record patient conversations outside of session.
What is the Case Log?
Esther Bick discovered a defensive system in lieu of a sense of containment gleaned from a responsive, reliable mother which attempts to substitute for this vital need. Often of a sticky, muscular or tactile dimension.
What is a second skin?