A Postscript to Panel Discussion of Gianni Nebbiosi's "The Smell of Paper: On the Usefulness of Musical Thought in Psychoanalytic Practice". Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cooper, Steven H.
• Is Part Of: Psychoanalytic dialogues. Volume 26:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 35
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychotherapist and patient -- Periodicals; 616.891705
• DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2016.1123510
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1048-1885

Abstract

Abstract : Gianni Nebbiosi's paper, "The Smell of Paper: On the Usefulness of Musical Thought in Psychoanalytic Practice, " explores many levels of the analyst's clinical sensibility. These include the finding of a patient in the mind of the psychoanalyst, the discovery of new points of creative inflexion in developing metaphors with a patient who is frightened of symbolic meaning, the use of countertransference analysis to explore the analyst's points of resistance to helping his or her patient, and the development of a creative shared frame of reference between patient and analyst that emerges from the patient's unconscious life.