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ABSTRACT
Interweaving clinical phenomena and dynamics from a developmental perspective is fraught and burdened by the exact complexities one is trying to unravel and re-ravel! While acknowledging those complexities and difficulties Dr. Herzog took on in his paper, I offer an understanding of developmental tasks from relentless, emergent, bidirectional system of influence and being influenced. The focus here is not on either the adult or the child but on the dyad: the adult and child’s individual contributions toward growth and development AND the adult and child’s co-configured, co-created experiences. Brandchaft’s theory, systems of pathological accommodation, is offered an alternative means of clinically understanding the binding attachments or “tethered love.” The case Dr. Herzog shares is reconsidered from Brandchaft’s perspective and from a developmental, dyadic, bidirectional system’s clinical approach.
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Jacqueline J. Gotthold
Jacqueline J. Gotthold, Psy.D., is a psychoanalyst/psychologist in independent practice working with adults, children, and adolescents in New York City. Jackie has served on the boards of the International Association of the Psychology of the Self (IAPSP), APA’s Division 39, Section II (Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis), and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). A graduate, faculty member, and supervisor of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Study of Subjective (IPSS), Dr. Gotthold has numerous publications and presentations on Self-Psychology/Intersubjectivity System Theory and Relational Clinical Theory and Practice.