Citation

Tomarken A. Br. J. Psychother. 2019; 35(3): 350-361.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/bjp.12468

PMID

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Abstract

This paper uses a personal clinical example from my practice to demonstrate the complexities and nonlinearity of time in a discussion of unconscious entanglements. These entanglements include personal intersections of my patient's history and mine, events at the time of our meeting, and the unknown future. These entanglements become uncanny, and in the uncanny what is revealed is not only illuminating but altering. This detailed and intimate examination of how we cannot only alter our patients' lives and future, but also how they can inform us of ours, provides a platform to discuss the mutual vulnerability of both patients and analysts. Despite the creative engagement and transformation that can take place in these discussions, we as analytically minded therapists continue to struggle to share this autobiographical piece of our work with each other. © 2019 BPF and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; Suicide; psychotherapy; Psychoanalytic Theory; politics; psychoanalysis; interpersonal communication; terminally ill patient; heart rate; life; psychotherapist; emotionality; work; Article; unconsciousness; illumination; Enactment; doctor patient relationship; Analyst; Patient Relationship; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Relational Psychoanalysis; Termination of Treatment; Unconcious Dynamics