(1978). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 47:113-115 A young woman who had been seduced by an adult as a child of five showed a typical and repetitive simultaneous shutting off of emotion and perception in a "hypnoid state" and a hypersensitive awareness to certain signals that meant to her the possible reliving of a trauma from childhood. She reported one day that she had left the previous analytic session feeling sleepy and "out of things." This was a characteristic autohypnotic state: "I didn't even know how to open the door or whether to leave it open; it was as if I wasn't quite there, and I had no awareness of you or of leaving your office. And yet when I went out into the waiting room, I heard the sound of a man urinating from the bathroom. I am sure it was a man—from the sound. And before that, as I was closing the door, you had a phone call and I heard the change in your voice. You weren't talking to a patient, but to someone you didn't want to hear from." The patient, as usual, was right. As she had done [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
