Investigated how people who come to analysis appear quite 'ordinary' on the surface, but how below that surface there is something quite unexpected: 'extra-ordinary protections' created to keep at bay any awareness of traumatic events.

Judith L. Mitrani is a Training and Supervising analyst at both The Psychoanalytic Center of California and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. She is author of A Framework for the Imaginery: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being and the co-editor (with Dr. Theodore Mitrani) of the book Encounters with Autisitic States: A Memorial Tribute to Frances Tustin.

Grotstein, Foreword. Transference Interpretation and the Emergence of Infantile Dependency in Ordinary People. Extra-Ordinary Protections: The Evolution of the Theory of Adhesive Identification. Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections. The Flying Dutchman and the Search for the Containing Object. Chloe: From Pre-Conception to After Birth. Unbearable Ecstasy, Reverence and Awe and the Perpetuation of an Aesthetic Conflict. Never Before and Never Again. Changes of Mind: Working Things Through in the Countertransference. Concluding Thoughts.