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100 SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE AAP described her own terror in voluntarily undergoing a countertransference regres- sion, and the mutually anxiety-provoking and terrifying experience of entering the "dark room" with her patient time and time again. Reflecting on her work, Vida stated that she now feels her countertransference regression as "part of the experi- ence of pure mutuality at a deep, primitive level, that required undefended trust on both our parts." Galdi began her thorough discussion by thoughtfully delineating Ferenczi's tech- nique as guided by developmental theory. She then connected this with the trauma of Vida's patient and his feelings of being unwanted. She noted Ferenczi's belief that traumatic disruption of the early mother-child relationship, coupled with the mother's subsequent denial of the traumatic element, disrupts the child's tender feelings of togetherness and identity with the mother. Stating Ferenczi's viewpoint that helplessness and aloneness led to severe anxiety, Galdi emphasized that Karen Homey would concur, and would call this state "basic anxiety." Throughout much of her discussion, in fact, Galdi viewed Vida's case material through a Horneyan lens, remarking that Vida's description of a fundamentally "healthy core," which expressed itself defensively through superior intelligence, was essentially Horney's "real self"
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Mar 1, 1996
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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