Alphabetizing in old age.
A long term, intensive analysis with a woman in old old age is reported. An attempt is made to answer the question, 'What, in analytic work, is healing?'. The patient's previous classical Jungian work is contrasted with the author's developmental perspective. It is suggested that an enactment, representing what Neville Symington has called an analyst's act of freedom, was crucial in effecting a profound transformation in the patient's psyche.
Sullivan
Barbara Stevens
BS
San Francisco, CA, USA.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003142:Communication; D003379:Countertransference; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004325:Dreams; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005608:Free Association; D006801:Humans; D007602:Jungian Theory; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*