Before and Beyond Projection? A Discussion of the Therapist's Experience of Holding the Patient in Mind |
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| Authors: | Jan McGregor Hepburn |
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| Affiliation: | Jan McGregor Hepburn is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Northumberland. She is a Full Member of the LCP, and Chairperson of the Northern Association for Analytical Psychotherapy. |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT. This paper is an attempt to think about a process and experience which is essentially before thinking in its origins; that is to say, the maternal experience of holding the baby in mind and the baby's experience of being held. I have looked at the issue subjectively and anecdotally, for which in the end I make no apology as I can see no other way to proceed, at least in the first instance; and I want to think about how this thinking applies to the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. |
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