Containing States of Mind Quotes

“This kind of mental engagement communicates the struggle between experiencing projective identifications, on the one hand, and the ability to survive and have his own thoughts, a mind of his own, on the other. If stated in terms of the ongoing internal dialogue between ‘proper object’ and ‘dream object’, passion is the emotional link signalling these two representations of the therapist’s experience in dialogue. It is an internal dialogue that takes place, or is conveyed, within an intersubjective process (Billow, 2000). The”
― Duncan Cartwright, Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

“the containing function attempts to balance or titrate these two vertices in a way that allows for meaning to cohere and in a way that eventually finds transient existence in symbols. For”
― Duncan Cartwright, Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

“therapist who is able to think and connect while struggling with feelings that are vicariously linked to the patient’s internal states. Returning”
― Duncan Cartwright, Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy