Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences

Anne-Marie Schloesser, Alf Gerlach

Preface -- Introduction -- Questioning Psychoanalytical Conceptualisation -- On transference interpretation as a resistance to free association -- Attachment and psychoanalysis: Is the concept of attachment drive really heretical? -- Combining individual and group therapy in an out-patient setting for patients with personality disorders—useful approach or invitation to acting out? -- Must one respect religiosity? -- Psychotherapy in Culture and Society: Problems of Migration, Interculturality -- Trauma, Migration and Creativity -- Culture-orientated psychoanalysis: On taking cultural background into account in the therapy of migrants -- Similar and yet different. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with first and later generation immigrants in the Netherlands -- Teaching psychotherapy as a bridge in a multicultural environment -- Widening the Borders in Psychoanalytic Treatment -- Reflecting on borderline pathologies: The perverse core and its role in the crossroads between self-representation and confusion -- Aborted hope: Transference and countertransference implications of a narcissistic phantasy -- Experiencing loss and mourning in the countertransference -- Function of borders: Permeability and demarcation. The contact barrier in the psychoanalytic process -- The infra-verbal dimension of language in the transference: Its significance in the therapeutic process -- Is Psychoanalytic Research Possible? -- The profession and empirical research—sovereignty and integration -- Evidence-based psychoanalysis—a critical discussion of research into psychoanalytic therapy -- Psychosocial problems of patients with difficult to treat depression