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Searching for Love and Expecting Rejection: Implicit and Explicit Dimensions in Cocreating Analytic Change

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From: Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Date: 20070601
Author:Fosshage, James L

I have spread my dreams under your feet

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

-William Butler Yeats, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WHEN NATALIE CAME INTO MY OFFICE. On these occasions, she barely looked at me; her thin face was drawn tight, losing its usual attractiveness. Body movements and aura were anxiety-laden and constricted. This particular day, I internally prepared myself first to withstand, and then to understand, her massively painful upsetwhat I anticipated to be an admixture of traumatic hurt, intense shame, covert anger, and her deflating ...

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