One form of self-analysis.
Beginning with Freud, psychoanalysts have discovered media through which they may achieve a self-analytic experience (for example, by use of dreams, fantasies, reveries, memories, and even visual images). Each of these media is a kind of "fiction" created by the analyst that provides an imaginative space where he or she may gain access to unconscious life. The author demonstrates how a generative self-analytic experience may be accomplished through the medium of psychoanalytic writing: a fictional autobiographical form of writing through which a self-analytic experience is created that has much in common with the analytic experience created by the analyst and analysand.
Griffin
Fred L
FL
fgmont@aol.com
D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D003379:Countertransference; D004532:Ego; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014956:Writing