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Forum Welcome to IPPNJ's Authors' Forum. The articles which follow are being presented in this electronic arena with the hope that they will provoke thoughtful consideration by you, our audience. We also hope, as we develop this site further, to eventually establish an ongoing, online discussion of each article. For now, we invite your Comments (see bottom of article). Every attempt will be made to respond as soon as possible. Please remember to include your e-mail address if you would like a response. Also, let us know if you have suggestions how we improve upon this site. This month we shift our focus to an examination of the treatment, transference and countertransference issues involved in working with an elder population by a IPPNJ senior analyst. Helen Strauss, Ph.D. provides an inspiring, human view into this little understood area in her article, Working as an Elder Analyst. Previously in this series, McWilliams and Lependorf (Narcissistic Pathology of Everyday Life: The Denial of Remorse and Gratitude), return to Freud's consistant focus on "everyday-life experience" to amplify unconscious processes at work. The authors closely examine the possible dynamic reasons for a narcissistic person's inability to perform the simple everyday social tasks of aplogizing or thanking another person. Next, Finell (Narcissistic Problems in Analysts) examines the question of how the analyst's own un-identified and/or unresolved narcissism and consequent use of defense mechanisms such as splitting, denial and ego-fragmentation may impact on the treatment outcome. Also,
Fuerstein (The Tell Tale
Heart: Responding to a Patient's Somatic Language) contributed
to our understanding and treatment of early developmental arrests
by "focusing on interpretive process and how it is infused
with the intersubjective experience and the mind-body inter- relationship."
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