A relational psychoanalysis perspective on the necessity of acknowledging failure in order to restore the facilitating and containing features of the intersubjective relationship (the shared third)

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 441-450

  Benjamin, Jessica ^a  

^a Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; AUTOREGULATION; FEAR; HUMAN; MONITORING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DREAM; EMPATHY; ETHICS; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SHAME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CRIME VICTIMS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DREAMS; EMPATHY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; SHAME; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); TREATMENT FAILURE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 67949088240     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: 17458315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00163.x     Document Type: Review

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