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Attachment: Session 7
Now Moments and Implicit Relational Knowing
Jeffery Smith, MD
jssmith@me.com
Reading: Chapter: "Noninterpretive Mechanisms in Psychoanalytic Therapy: THe 'Something More' Than Interpretation" In Tronic, Edward, The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children, copies to be distributed the week before.
Written Assignment: After each session, please write a 1 page reacton: "What struck you about this reading." Bring your paper to share at the beginning of class.
A Few Key Points--
• What is the difference between interpretation and moments of meeting?
• Implicit knowledge and the "shared implicit relationship."
• Present moment: A unit of dialogic exchange with coherent content and homogeneous feeling.
• "Now Moments:" Present moments that are distinct from "moving along," unsettling or weird, moments of truth that ask for a non-technical response.
• Three phases of the now moment: Pregnancy, Weirdness, Decision.
• "Moments of Meeting," and now moments missed, flagged, failed, repaired, ratified.
• How these moments link child rearing and therapeutic change.
• How these moments link child rearing and therapeutic change.
• What about moments of meeting as new information?
• What about the element of surprise or going against expectations?
• Are there other ways that experiential learning happens?