Discussion of Jean Wixom's “Just Do It”

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Philip A. Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D., is Senior Training Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Member, Board of Directors, International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Member, International Council of Self Psychologists; Editorial Board, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has a private practice in Encino, California.

¹Stolorow's mode of “twinship” differs dramatically from Kohut's idea of inborn longings for “twinship.” Stolorow's mode is essentially described as an ontologically arrived at “twinship function” that ascribes special “authenticity” to the traumatized, making them something of an elite class distinguished from so-called non-traumatized “normals” (Ringstrom, 2010a).