| Abstract: | Responds to the comments made by Moshe Halevi Spero (see record 2008-00996-014) on the current author's original article, "Time on my hands: The dilemma of the chronically late patient" (see record 2006-20697-003). First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Spero for his thoughtful, penetrating and thought-provoking commentary on my chronically late patient. Whenever one's efforts elicit such a sensitive and probing reflection, the effect can hardly be anything but gratifying. Spero's reflection brings to bear a deconstructive perspective that effectively captures the uncertainty, ambiguities, and conflicting pressures created in an analytic process that had become abbreviated, fragmented, diffused, frustrated, and constantly hovering seemingly on the brink of disruption. His approach thoughtfully probes the periphery and penumbra of significance surrounding the playing out of events in this analytic process, and his inquiry thus brings into focus a number of salient issues that could not be engaged or whose meaning could not be effectively ascertained because of the dissolute quality of the analytic effort. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
