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D Pines

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PubMed1986

Working with women survivors of the Holocaust: affective experiences in transference and countertransference.

This paper describes and discusses some late effects of massive traumatization on two women survivors of the Holocaust. Both had appeared to recover from their affective experience of psychic death and hopelessness in Auschwitz and to have moved towards a resumption of further stages of the life cycle. The normal transitional crises of adolescence, when children emotionally separate from their parents, led to severe breakdown in both these patients. Analysis showed that denial, repression and splitting had enabled them to distance themselves from the overwhelming horror of their past, but it had also led to concrete thinking as opposed to metaphorical, and to non-differentiation of psychic and somatic pain. Their inability to dream and the absence of fantasy life in the material could neither facilitate the analytic task of working through these patients' unbearable experience, nor enable them at first to face and recover unbearable affects during the course of the analysis. Hence the analyst's acceptance of an unbearable countertransference and careful monitoring of the affects evoked proved to be an invaluable tool.

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PubMed1981

Glitches and pinned vorticity in the Crab pulsar.

We suggest that the glitch behavior observed in the Crab pulsar is associated with vorticity jumps induced by a starquake or a comparable external fluctuation in the weakly pinned vortex region expected in the crust of a young neutron star, and that the differences in the glitch behavior of the Crab, Vela, and older pulsars may be explained on evolutionary grounds.

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PubMed1980

Skin communication: early skin disorders and their effect on transference and countertransference.

Eczema in the first year of life results in a basic disturbance of the earliest mother-infant relationship, a disturbance that is renewed with every transitional phase of the life-cycle. The pervasive fear of disintegration or loss of the self, and the need to be contained and held, affects subsequent character formation. Infants who experience extended periods of bodily soothing learn to translate psychic pain into visible bodily suffering and so arouse concern and care. This is illustrated by direct observation of women patients suffering from skin diseases and their interaction with women doctors in hospital. In the analysis of patients who have had such an infantile experience, whether they know it or not, a disturbance in concepts of the self linked with narcissistic difficulties and acute sensitivity to object relationships may be anticipated. The mother's human disappointment in her baby's appearance gives rise to an unsatisfying and unsatisfactory self image which remains unaltered in the true self. Transference and countertransference problems derived from the analysis of a female patient are described in order to illustrate these themes.

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