title: Peeling the onion: understanding layers of treatment.
abstract: How can a psychoanalyst account for and recount the process of understanding the therapeutic endeavor? What happens in those moments, co-created by patient and analyst, when the consultation room comes "alive" in ways that defy easy or simplistic answers? How does an analyst come to understand psychoanalytic treatment as a bidirectional, dyadic, dynamic, interactively regulated relationship? Understanding the psychoanalytic treatment process from a disciplined, yet spontaneous, nonlinear perspective is the focus of this chapter. The overarching treatment process will be considered through the presentation of vignette of a treatment with a school-aged child.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York, New York 10019, USA. jackie.gotthold@att.net
authors.forename: Jacqueline J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Gotthold
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D002666:Psychology, Child; D019455:Self Psychology