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List of contents
Introduction , When Events in the Analyst’s Life Intrude upon Clinical Space , The analyst’s infertility and subsequent pregnancy , When Others Intrude upon Clinical Space , Waiting-room dramas between patients , “Have you Heard?” Revelations regarding the analyst , When Machines Intrude Upon Clinical Space , A patient’s tape recording of analytic sessions , From an iPhone, through an iPad and an iMac, to the Cloud: the evolution of a sense of “I-ness” , When Political Events Intrude Upon Clinical Space , Sadistic transferences in the context of ethnic difference: before and after 9/11 , Osama bin Laden’s death and its impact on the analytic process
About the author
Aisha Abbasi, MD, graduated from Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan. She moved to America with her husband, Aamer, in 1987 and completed a residency in psychiatry at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. She trained to become a psychoanalyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, where she is now a Training and Supervising Analyst. She has presented and published on a variety of analytic topics, and is currently co-chair of a discussion group, 'The Birth of an Analysis in the Mind of the Analyst: From Evaluation, to Recommendation, and Beyond,' which convenes annually at the national meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her collection of Urdu poetry, 'Ek Dunya Meray Andar Hai (The World Within)', was published in Pakistan in 2007 and in America in 2009. She currently lives in West Bloomfield, MI.
Summary
In The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, the author draws on clinical material to describe some of the dilemmas she has encountered in her work with patients when external factors have entered the treatment frame.
