Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092141
- eISBN:
- 9780300129281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092141.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This book chronicles the case of Rachel C., a twenty-two-year-old working woman, who first saw psychoanalyst Louville Eugene Emerson on 24 January 1912. Two hundred and ninety-one sessions followed ...
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This book chronicles the case of Rachel C., a twenty-two-year-old working woman, who first saw psychoanalyst Louville Eugene Emerson on 24 January 1912. Two hundred and ninety-one sessions followed this first one, all but twenty-three of them within just over two years from the treatment's start. Although Emerson kept notes on all his patients, the notes he kept in this case were more voluminous and more worked over than any of his others. This introductory chapter presents background information on Emerson. It considers the ways in which the exigencies and demands of psychoanalytic practice shaped Emerson's understandings of psychoanalytic concepts and technique. It also discusses the relevance of the case of Rachel C.Less
This book chronicles the case of Rachel C., a twenty-two-year-old working woman, who first saw psychoanalyst Louville Eugene Emerson on 24 January 1912. Two hundred and ninety-one sessions followed this first one, all but twenty-three of them within just over two years from the treatment's start. Although Emerson kept notes on all his patients, the notes he kept in this case were more voluminous and more worked over than any of his others. This introductory chapter presents background information on Emerson. It considers the ways in which the exigencies and demands of psychoanalytic practice shaped Emerson's understandings of psychoanalytic concepts and technique. It also discusses the relevance of the case of Rachel C.
Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092141
- eISBN:
- 9780300129281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092141.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This chapter presents some comments on the reading of psychoanalytic case notes. It suggests that Emerson's notes, as is likely true for the vast majority of cases in which the analyst takes notes ...
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This chapter presents some comments on the reading of psychoanalytic case notes. It suggests that Emerson's notes, as is likely true for the vast majority of cases in which the analyst takes notes during a session or soon afterward, are sketchy and elliptical, intended more as aide-mémoire for his personal use than as a full account of the case. The reader can, however, become accustomed and attuned to the psychoanalytic dialogue even by way of the select and attenuated version of it presented in the analyst's notes.Less
This chapter presents some comments on the reading of psychoanalytic case notes. It suggests that Emerson's notes, as is likely true for the vast majority of cases in which the analyst takes notes during a session or soon afterward, are sketchy and elliptical, intended more as aide-mémoire for his personal use than as a full account of the case. The reader can, however, become accustomed and attuned to the psychoanalytic dialogue even by way of the select and attenuated version of it presented in the analyst's notes.
Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092141
- eISBN:
- 9780300129281
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092141.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This book presents an early psychoanalyst's session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offering a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the ...
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This book presents an early psychoanalyst's session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offering a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century. Accompanying these notes are insightful commentaries by Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon that situate the case historically and throw light on the many difficulties that both analyst and patient encountered in the treatment.Less
This book presents an early psychoanalyst's session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offering a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century. Accompanying these notes are insightful commentaries by Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon that situate the case historically and throw light on the many difficulties that both analyst and patient encountered in the treatment.
