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In Nina Coltart's Garden: Gathering and Intertwining Some Thoughts of an Independent Psychoanalyst
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 68, Number 2, Summer 2011
- pp. 249-265
- 10.1353/aim.2011.0015
- Article
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Taking off from Nina Coltart's declaration that "in an ideal world, all psychotherapists would have a garden," this paper explores some of the main concepts in Coltart's work, such as vocation, giftedness, faith, love, and attention. All these concepts center on the idea that psychoanalysis is a mysterious process. The author delineates the connections between Coltart's thought and that of Wilfred Bion, as well as its resonance with a number of other authors, to show how her contributions remain fresh and challenging for contemporary psychoanalysis.