The Triple Entendre

ABSTRACT

This clinical paper explores aspects of unconscious communication and dissociation during the authors first year in psychoanalytic training, as an early career clinician. The author explores dissociation subjectively experienced as a form of communicating both consciously and unconsciously. The analyst/analysand relationship is expressed as the conduit for optimal exposure to dissociated self-states in what has been coined the parallel process. A glance into the authors supervision, personal analysis and treatment with a two times a week patient is brought center stage.

Acknowledgments

I thank Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW, Lauren Levine, Ph.D. and Monique Toussaint for their valuable feedback on earlier versions of this paper.

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Shari Appollon

Shari Appollon, LCSW-R, is a Haitian-American candidate at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and graduate of The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She is a Clinical Supervisor at NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy, a group practice that provides affordable psychotherapy to the LGBTQ+ community. She is in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.