Key Papers on Borderline Disorders: With IJP Internet Discussion Reviews

252 Pages·2002·10.842 MB·English

by  Paul Williams

KEY PAPERS ON
BORDERLINE DISORDERS
WITH IJP INTERNET DISCUSSION REVIEWS

KEY PAPERS ON
BORDERLINE DISORDERS
WITH IJP INTERNET DISCUSSION REVIEWS
edited
by
Paul Williams
lnternationa1)ournal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series
Series Editors: Paul Williams and Glen 0. Gabbard
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CONTENTS
SERIES PREFACE vii
Introduction 1
1: Thick- and thin-skinned organisations and enactment in
borderline and narcissistic disorders
by Anthony W. Baternan
la: Intemet discussion review
by Paul Williams
2: The central phobic position: a new formulation of the
free association method
by Andre' Green
2a: Internet discussion review
by Paul Williams
3: The unconscious and psychosis: some considerations on
the psychoanalytic theory of psychosis
by Franco de Masi
3a: Internet discussion review
by Denise Cullington Roberts
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4: Psychopathology and primitive mental states
by Robert Caper
4a: Internet discussion review
by Paul Williams
5: Problems of female sexuality: the defensive function
of certain phantasies about the body
by Lmedana Micati Squitieri
5a: Internet discussion review
by Paul Williams
SERIES PREFACE
The International lournal of
Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series
This series brings together the most important psychoanalytic
papers in the journal's eighty-year history, in a series of accessible
monographs. The idea behind the series is to approach the Ips
intellectual resource from a variety of perspectives in order to
highl~ghti mportant domains of psychoanalytic enquiry. It is hoped
that these volumes will be of interest to psychoanalysts, students of
the discipline and, in particular, to those who work and write from
an interdisciplinary standpoint. The ways in which the papers in the
monographs are grouped will vary: for example, a number of
'themed' monographs will take as their subject important psycho-
analytic topics, while others will stress interdisciplinary links
(between neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy etc. and psycho-
analysis). Still others will contain review essays on, for example,
film and psychoanalysis, art and psychoanalysis and the worldwide
IJP Internet Discussion Group, which debates important papers
before they appear in the printed journal (cf. www.iipa.org). The
aim of all the monographs is to provide the reader with a
substantive contribution of the highest quality that reflects the
principal concerns of contemporary psychoanalysts and those with
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whom they are in dialogue. We hope you will find the monographs
rewarding and pleasurable to read.
Paul Williams and Glen 0. Gabbard
Joint Editors-inchief,
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
London, 2002
Introduction
PETER FONAGY, London
This book grew out of technical innovation. Not only at the level of
therapeutic technique, although to be sure there is a considerable
amount of that too. The rapid growth of the internet has enabled the
psychoanalytic community to comment on emerging psychoanalytic
ideas almost before they have been fully formulated. The papers
that were to appear in the International Joumal of Psychoanalysis were
posted on its website and discussed by an international audience of
remarkable intellectual force and nimbleness. David Tuckett as
journal editor responded with his customary nimbleness of mind to
create this electronic forum for debate linked to the Joumal before
any other similar electronic auditoria were created. Joseph Sandler,
in his role as the first website editor (the last editorial role of an
unparalleled career), benignly supe~i~ethde debate. The innova-
tive paradigm of key theoretical contributions contextualised by
concurrent international peer discussion gives this volume a very
special signhcance. It might point the way towards resolving the
long-standing struggle of psychoanalysis with creating a truly
integrated knowledge base.
Some might liken the evolution of psychoanalytic knowledge to
one that has grown in the style of a stamp-collection. Its progress is