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An alternative to the "traumatizing" vacation: The enriching, expansive vacation

An alternative to the "traumatizing" vacation: The enriching, expansive vacation The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 53, No. 2, 1993 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE "TRAUMATIZING" VACATION: THE ENRICHING, EXPANSIVE VACATION Sharon Hymer Vacations often evoke a surge of well-being in us, a feeling of expansive- ness that enriches the self as well as our relationships with others. The novelty of travel enables patients and analysts alike to try on new identi- ties, to be less hide-bound by routinized existences. Analysts who adhere to a need deficit model of preoedipal dependency in which the patient, like the child without his or her mother, would be helpless or hopeless in the analyst's absence rarely address the positive aspects of vacations for both analysts and patients. This deficit perspective also stems from many analysts' countertransferential needs to be needed. That the patient can survive and even thrive during analysts' vacations may be defensively guarded against by analysts who countertransferentially need to be mirrored or idealized, or themselves have trouble separating from their patients. Freud (quoted in Fussell, 1987, p. 13) also believed that a great part of travel's pleasures resided in early wishes to escape the family and espe- cially the father. One can extend this premise to include many patients' wishes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

An alternative to the "traumatizing" vacation: The enriching, expansive vacation

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 53 (2): 15 – Jun 1, 1993

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Springer Journals
Copyright
1993 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01250488
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 53, No. 2, 1993 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE "TRAUMATIZING" VACATION: THE ENRICHING, EXPANSIVE VACATION Sharon Hymer Vacations often evoke a surge of well-being in us, a feeling of expansive- ness that enriches the self as well as our relationships with others. The novelty of travel enables patients and analysts alike to try on new identi- ties, to be less hide-bound by routinized existences. Analysts who adhere to a need deficit model of preoedipal dependency in which the patient, like the child without his or her mother, would be helpless or hopeless in the analyst's absence rarely address the positive aspects of vacations for both analysts and patients. This deficit perspective also stems from many analysts' countertransferential needs to be needed. That the patient can survive and even thrive during analysts' vacations may be defensively guarded against by analysts who countertransferentially need to be mirrored or idealized, or themselves have trouble separating from their patients. Freud (quoted in Fussell, 1987, p. 13) also believed that a great part of travel's pleasures resided in early wishes to escape the family and espe- cially the father. One can extend this premise to include many patients' wishes

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Jun 1, 1993

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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