title: RUPTURES IN THE ANALYTIC SETTING AND DISTURBANCES IN THE TRANSFORMATIONAL FIELD OF DREAMS.
abstract: This paper explores some implications of Bleger's (1967, 2013) concept of the analytic situation, which he views as comprising the analytic setting and the analytic process. The author discusses Bleger's idea of the analytic setting as the depositary for projected painful aspects in either the analyst or patient or both-affects that are then rendered as nonprocess. In contrast, the contents of the analytic process are subject to an incessant process of transformation (Green 2005). The author goes on to enumerate various components of the analytic setting: the nonhuman, object relational, and the analyst's "person" (including mental functioning). An extended clinical vignette is offered as an illustration.
authors.affiliation: Child and adult analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is a supervising child analyst. He is on the faculty there as well as at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is President of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies.
authors.forename: Lawrence J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology
keywords: Bion; Bleger; Field theory; alpha function; characters; dreaming; enactment; intersubjectivity; nonprocess; transference-countertransference; transformation