Framework for the Imaginary

Dr Judith Mitrani trained as a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. In her private practice, she specializes in both the treatment and supervision of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults and children.

• Foreword , Introduction , Introduction to the Karnac Edition 2008 , Unintegration, Adhesive Identification, and the Psychic Skin: * Variations on Some Themes by Esther Bick , On the Survival Function of Autistic Maneuvers in Adult Patients 1 , Notes on an Embryonic State of Mind , On the Survival Function of Pathological Organizations 1 , To Err Is Human: One Patient’s Emergence from within a Pathological Organization , The Role of Unmentalized Experience in the Etiology and Treatment of Psychosomatic Asthma 1 , Examining a Fragment of a Fragment: Freud’s “Dora” Case Revisited , On Adhesive Pseudo-Object Relations: A Theory 1 , On Adhesive Pseudo-Object Relations: An Illustration 1 , Toward an Understanding of Unmentalized Experience 1 , Deficiency and Envy: Some Factors Impacting the Analytic Mind from Listening to Interpretation 1 , Credits

'Dr Mitrani has that gift. Picking up where Tustin and the other pioneers left off, she provides a vivid and satisfying scholarly vision of the earliest mental experience. Rich with clinical example, her findings are presented lucidly and with flair.'- Harold N. Boris'Dr Mitrani's focus in the current genre of primitive emotional states is cogent, topical, and imaginatively integrative. She seamlessly weaves her clinical and theoretical threads through a vast array of contributions on the subject (Tustin, Bion, Klein, Winnicott, Bick, Anzieu, Ogden, and so many others), but it is Tustin who is her north star, and this book represents an elegant appreciation of her work as well as an imaginatively creative extension of it. The numerous and beautifully detailed clinical illustrations give the book a high degree of credibility.'- James S. Grotstein'A Framework for the Imaginary features richly detailed clinical exposition seamlessly alloyed with exceptional scholarship. Dr Mitrani is a gifted teacher, whose steady aim is to augment the clinician's capacity to tolerate and integrate diverse theoretical positions.'- Judith K. Welles