Supervising the uncanny: the play within the play.
The writer offers a combined experience in analysis and the performing arts to explore uncanny aspects of the unconscious subtext of the patient's inner drama; subtext which can remain hidden from view in supervision. Freud and Jung's understanding of uncanny experience is considered together with a painting from medieval alchemy and Matte Blanco's conceptions concerning the symmetrical nature of unconscious process. Theatre and the work of the theatre director and actor in approaching the multidimensional aspects of a play are then introduced. Finally clinical case material from group supervision demonstrates how the 'theatre of therapy' and the work of the supervisory couple and group promote the emergence of a more authentic conscious asymmetrical response to the patient's 'script' that can break the 'spell' of the transference/countertransference relationship. This in turn brings meaning to the underlying and implicit 'stage directions' that the patient has been unconsciously communicating.
London.
Carol
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Leader
D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
Besessenheit; Emergenz; Lo misterioso; Parallelprozeß; Symmetrie; Theater der Therapie; asimmetria; das Unheimliche; emergence; emergencia; emergente; field theory; implicit memory; implizites Gedächtnis; inconscient non refoulé; inconsciente no reprimido; inconscio represso; inquietante; l'Étrange; liminality and the ‘moment of meeting’; memoria implicita; memoria implícita; mémoire implicite; parallel process; posesión; possession; possessione; proceso paralelo; processo parallelo; processus parallèle; simetría; symmetry; symétrie; teatro de la terapia; teatro di terapia; theatre of therapy; théâtre de la thérapie; unrepressed unconscious; unverdrängtes Unbewußtes; Émergence; имплицитная память; невытесненное бессознательное; необъяснимое; одержимость; параллельный процесс; симметрия; театр терапии; явление