Maurice Apprey

In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad. With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic consequences of the unresolved, silenced tragedies and transgressions that haunt subsequent generations, Apprey illustrates how the analyst can unfold a patient's transference wishes and emancipate them from the unconscious projects, or errands, they have inherited. This can happen through a threefold process of excavating the unconscious sedimentations of ancestral history, appropriating and reactivating the ancestral errands within the transference, and subsequently decoding the patient's transference pressures. Expanding on Apprey's work about the analyst's field of inquiry and ways of listening in clinical practice, this book illuminates the potential for a resolution, rather than a re-enactment, of the traumas that can haunt a family system across generations. Attending to the manifestation of transgenerational trauma through varied clinical material, and informed by the thinking of Sigmund Freud, among others, this book will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad. With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic consequences of the unresolved, silenced tragedies and transgressions that haunt subsequent generations, Apprey illustrates how the analyst can unfold a patient's transference wishes and emancipate them from the unconscious projects, or errands, they have inherited. This can happen through a threefold process of excavating the unconscious sedimentations of ancestral history, appropriating and reactivating the ancestral errands within the transference, and subsequently decoding the patient's transference pressures. Expanding on Apprey's work about the analyst's field of inquiry and ways of listening in clinical practice, this book illuminates the potential for a resolution, rather than a re-enactment, of the traumas that can haunt a family system across generations. Attending to the manifestation of transgenerational trauma through varied clinical material, and informed by the thinking of Sigmund Freud, among others, this book will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Revision with unchanged content. The field of conflict resolution is one of the main instruments for the management of social change. There are non-governmental organizations that practice conflict resolution in fractured communities but they do so as third-party interventionists. A model is hereby proposed where the feuding parties themselves become the NGO for sustaining the positive outcome of the third-party intervention. The work toward sustainability is then reframed as an ethic of transfer to the indigenous parties that were hitherto in conflict. This reframing is performed with the praxis of formal grounded theory and modified by meta-ethno-gra-phy. Lastly, an argument is made for including a development economist in an inter-disciplinary conflict resolution group because a country in transition could use an economic program to ameliorate or intensify a previous conflict. This book will be helpful to all practitioners of conflict management who are particularly interested in the ethic of project transfer. In short, it is not enough to intervene. One must necessarily build into the intervention an ethic of transfer.

Clinical Stories and Their Translations proposes and illustrates via numerous case examples, the utility of a psychology-informed ethnographic method of clinical thinking, teaching, supervision and practice. Patient care involves the constant interplay between stories - those of the clinician, the patient, the patient's family, the clincial institution and the wider culture. Stein and Apprey explore how the construction, interpretation, and translation of clinical stories inform all therapeutic work. Although placed solidly in the tradition of clinical hermeneutics, this study adds the curcial psycholdynamic dimension that aids understanding of both the practitioner's resistance and access to the stories of his or her patients and families and hence to the healing process itself.