Doing Things Differently: The Influence of Donald Meltzer on Psychoanalytical Theory and Practice

This book is a distillation of papers presented at a three-day conference in February 2015, organized by the Donald Meltzer Development Fund and held at the Tavistock Clinic in London. The aim of the conference was to celebrate the work of Donald Meltzer, who was such a lively force in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavistock for many years. The book represents the work in progress which is the harvest of Meltzer's thinking and teaching, and covers such topics as dimensionality in primitive states of mind, dreaming, supervision, and the Claustrum. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Doing Things Differently: An Appreciation Of Donald Meltzer's Contribution / Margaret Rustin -- 2. The Relevance Of Donald Meltzer's Concept Of Nipple-penis Confusion To Selective Mutism And The Capacity To Produce Language / Maria Rhode -- 3. Point -- Line -- Surface -- Space: On Donald Meltzer's Concept Of One- And Two-dimensional Mental Functioning In Autistic States / Suzanne Maiello -- 4. Autism Reconsidered -- Donald Meltzer's Concept Of Dimensionality In Clinical Work With Autistic Patients / Suzanne Maiello -- Does The Meta-psychological Concept Of Dimensionality Refer To A Geometrical Or A Topological Model? / Didier Houzel -- A Response / Jeffrey L. Eaton -- 5. Dimensionality, Identity, And Security: Finding A Home Through Psychoanalysis / Louise Allnutt -- 6. The Isolated Adolescent / Carlos Tabbia -- 7. Supervision As A Space For The Co-creation Of Imaginative Conjectures / Clara Nemas -- 8. Keeping Tension Close To The Limit: From Latency Towards Development / Monica Vorchheimer -- 9. Donald Meltzer's Supervision Of Psychotherapy With A Psychotic Child / Jeanne Magagna -- 10. The Second Life Of Dreaming / Jeffrey L. Eaton -- 11. On Having Ideas: The Aesthetic Object And O / Meg Harris Williams -- 12. Degrees Of Entrapment: Living And Dying In The Claustrum / Pamela B. Sorensen -- 13. Trapped In A Claustrum World: The Proleptic Imagination And James Joyce's Ulysses / Mary Fisher-adams -- Gaudete: A Response To Mary Fisher-adams / David Mayers -- 14. A Mind Of One's Own: Therapy With A Patient Contending With Excessive Intrusive Identification And Claustrum Phenomena / Tara Harrison -- 15. Battered Women Lose Their Minds / Nubia Torres Calderon -- Concluding Thoughts On The Nature Of Psychoanalytic Activity / Alberto Hahn. Edited By Margaret Cohen & Alberto Hahn. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 237-248) And Index. Doing Things Differently celebrates the work of Donald Meltzer, who was such a lively force in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic for many years. The book represents the harvest of Meltzer's thinking and teaching, and covers such topics as dimensionality in primitive states of mind, dreaming, supervision, and the claustrum.