Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst by Dries Dulsster;

Author:Dries Dulsster; [Dries G. M. Dulsster]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000960457
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2023-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Rogers, A. (1995). A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy. Viking Penguin, New York.

2 Rogers, A. (2006). The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma. Ballantine Books, New York.

Chapter 7

Stephanie Swales – Untrodden Grounds

DOI: 10.4324/9781003410935-7

Stephanie Swales, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, a practising psychoanalyst, a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical supervisor. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters, as well as two books: Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch (Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Carol Owen; and Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject (Routledge, 2012). She serves as an editor for the PCSreview section of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, member-at-large for the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, as well as for the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and secretary for the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA’s Division 24).

Dries Dulsster (DD): Hi, Stephanie. Thanks for participating in my Dora-project! Every interview starts with the same question: “Who is your Dora?” What comes to mind? Does this question provoke anything?

Stephanie Swales (SS): Absolutely! It provokes the idea that we are shaped by our patients and analysands, just like we hold an important position in their analytic work. It is fundamental to psychoanalysis. It is an invention of Freud. The first set of people that come to mind are from when I was a graduate student trainee. I was working part-time at an outpatient forensic clinic, where most of the patients were either convicted or prejudicated sexual offenders. It was a practicum training placement that I chose, among other options. I ended up working there for maybe two-and-a-half years, because I really enjoyed the work. An outgoing colleague – who was also in the graduate programme – was transferring me her patient that she had worked with during the year that she had been at the clinic. She had been one of the co-leaders for this patient’s open-ended group therapy for sexual offenders. This man had not committed a crime, which was a bit unusual. My colleague had also been his individual therapist, but I was only going to be his individual therapist, not also his group therapist. Her passing comment to me about this analysand was: “You’ll love working with him because he is very good at free association.” She knew I was analytically oriented, and I thought that was a good thing. I walked somewhat naively into the second or third session, when he – I don’t remember his exact words – not so indirectly threatened to sexually assault me. He said something like: “I could if I wanted to, given how we are seated in this room. I am closest to the door, and there are no windows.” I immediately thought: “Oh… I don’t think this is a typical obsessional neurotic!” Like, okay, he is not just good at free association. This was relatively early in my graduate studies, but I had already read Lacan. I had also

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