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The conclusion of a two-part psychoanalytic case report on treatment of a woman with histrionic personality disorder, the primary symptom being vomiting, includes two vignettes from treatment sessions, an overview and epilogue. The treatment covered 750 sessions over six years. The vignettes are from the 70th session in the sixth month of treatment and the 720th, near the end of the sixth year. Discussion focuses on the role of the analyst and changes in psychosomatic symptoms, character structure, the analytic relationship and the patient's relationship with herself.
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A psychoanalyst describes the behavior of consultants Sue Nathanson Elkind and Alice Abarbanel as reprehensible and condescending and wants to warn the psychoanalytic community about how these consultants handle cases. The two consultants pretend to have compassion for their colleagues and act as an advocate for both parties, but they serve as a judge of the therapists and an advocate of the patient. Abarbanel reports the therapist to the ethics and licensing boards, after posing as an advocate for both parties and acknowledging her own imperfections.
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Psychoanalyst Sara Sheiner, an influential faculty member of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis, died in 1995, when she was in her mid-eighties. Sheiner was one of the first generation of graduates from the institute, having received her training when Karen Horney was still alive. A key figure in the Horneyan school, Sheiner was associate dean of the institute for many years and had recently returned to the faculty after a hiatus.
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