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Re: Speaking of transference (long) » gardenergirl

Posted by Pfinstegg on June 6, 2004, at 16:14:18

In reply to Speaking of transference (long), posted by gardenergirl on June 5, 2004, at 18:31:10

I'm having a somewhat different experience with my analyst in terms of the very lonely isolated relationship with my depressed mother which I had when I was a baby and young child. He looks for the group of feelings associated with that experience, and speaks to "them" in a very gentle, warm voice, reassuring that part of me, and letting it know that although she wasn't there, he is. He works, in part, from a model of me as having quite a bit of dissociation, as having cut off those painful parts in order to make it through life. So, he helps to bring those painful parts to the surface of my mind, and in a way, does fulfill the needs they have. It seems to work, as I feel a lot better! Is anyone else having an experience like this?

I have another set of feelings, also long buried, concerning abuse by my father when I was an older child. He deals with those in much the same way- contacting them, when I make them available, as if they contain feelings and fears which I as an adult do not have in the same way. He speaks to *them* directly. I guess you can see that he's an analyst who thinks dissociation happens a lot to traumatized people. I thought it was such a strange idea at first, but now I know he's right.


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