Standing in the spaces - essays on clinical process trauma and dissociation

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Introduction. Part I: Views from the Bridge. Artist and Analyst. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Regression. Empathy, Anxiety, and Reality: A View from the Bridge. Getting Into Oneself and Out of One's Self: On Schizoid Processes. The Use of Detachment in Narcissistic and Borderline Conditions. Part II: Safety, Regression, and Trauma. The Mirror and the Mask: On Narcissism and Psychoanalytic Growth. On the Occurrence of the Isakower Phenomenon in a Schizoid Patient. The Difficult Patient or the Difficult Dyad? On Knowing One's Patient Inside Out: The Aesthetics of Unconscious Communication. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology: A Clinical Comparison. Part III: Dissociation and Clinical Process. Shadow and Substance: A Relational Perspective on Clinical Process. Psychoanalysis, Dissociation, and Personality Organization. Resistance, Object Usage, and Human Relatedness. Hysteria, Dissociation, and Cure: Emmy von N Revisited. Part IV: Standing in the Spaces. "Speak! That I May See You": Some Reflections on Dissociation, Reality, and Psychoanalytic Listening. Standing in the Spaces: The Multiplicity of Self and the Psychoanalytic Relationship. Staying the Same While Changing: Reflections on Clinical Judgment. "Help! I'm Going Out of Your Mind!"