A Postscript to Panel Discussion of Gianni Nebbiosi’s “The Smell of Paper: On the Usefulness of Musical Thought in Psychoanalytic Practice”

Abstract

Gianni Nebbiosi’s paper, “The Smell of Paper: On the Usefulness of Musical Thought in Psychoanalytic Practice,” explores many levels of the analyst’s clinical sensibility. These include the finding of a patient in the mind of the psychoanalyst, the discovery of new points of creative inflexion in developing metaphors with a patient who is frightened of symbolic meaning, the use of countertransference analysis to explore the analyst’s points of resistance to helping his or her patient, and the development of a creative shared frame of reference between patient and analyst that emerges from the patient’s unconscious life.

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Steven H. Cooper

Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Training and Supervising Analyst, The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; and Joint Chief Editor Emeritus, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.