Counterdreamers: Analysts Reading Themselves
Miriam Botbol Acreche · Meg Harris Williams
Apr 2018 · Harris Meltzer Trust
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Counterdreaming' is Donald Meltzer's term for the psychoanalytic reverie that arises from the countertransference during the session, in response to the analysand's own dreams and phantasies. He writes: 'It is difficult to explain the technique of counterdreaming... I compare it with waiting in the dark for the deer, grazing at night, seen by their flashing white tails.' This nocturnal vigilance is on the alert for movement of the quarry, part object minimal movements which with patience can be seen to form a pattern of incipient meaning cast before.
About the author
Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education, working closely with Donald Meltzer. She has written and lectured extensively in the UK and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature. She is a visiting lecturer for AGIP and at the Tavistock Centre in London, and an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey. Miriam Botbol Acreche is a clinical psychologist and a founder member of the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona (GPB) which supervised with Donald Meltzer for many years. She works with children and adults and has a special interest in parents. She taught in Barcelona and Rosario, Argentina, where she lives now. She has published chapters in various books, such as: Teaching Meltzer: A Meltzer Reader, Bebes: experiencias desde un vertice psicoanalitico, De un taller psicoanalitico a partir de Donald Meltzer. She is the author of the books Bebe, bienvenido al mundo (0-3 anos), El orgullo de descubrir (3-6 anos) and Suenos, simbolos y perspectiva estetica: Un trayecto psicoanalitico personal en compania de Donald Meltzer.
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