A Particular Perspective on Analytic Listening

Schwaber, Evelyne Albrecht

doi:10.1080/00797308.1983.11823407

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“…Attention to attunement from within the patient's point of view (Schwaber, 1981(Schwaber, , 1983, consciousness about the damaging potential of insensitively worded or poorly timed interpretations, and the formative role that idealization of the therapist sometimes played were all better understood.…”

Section: Self Psychologymentioning

confidence: 98%

Contemporary psychoanalysis and hypnosis

Peebles-Kleiger¹

2001

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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The relationship between psychoanalysis and hypnosis is presented in three parts: past, present, and future. First, the parallel developments in psychoanalysis and hypnosis over the past 100 years are summarized. Four major theoretical evolutions in psychoanalysis (drive theory, ego psychology, object relations theory, and self psychology) are described, with their corresponding influences on the practice of psychoanalytically informed hypnosis. Second, four contemporary movements in psychoanalysis are enumerated (postmodernism, spontaneity, pluralism, and integrationism), with commentary on these movements' likely impact on the current and future practice of hypnosis. Finally, the impact of shrinking mental health dollars on the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically informed treatments is presented. Hypnosis is offered as uniquely positioned, with its history of multitheoretically informed brief interventions, grounded in research and clinical practice, to provide psychoanalysis with a life raft into the next 100 years of practice.

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Section: Self Psychologymentioning

confidence: 98%

Contemporary psychoanalysis and hypnosis

Peebles-Kleiger¹

2001

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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“…The more one has a sense that one is looking at the world, not so much the way it is, but rather through one's conceptualizations of it, influenced by one's own social and personal vantage point, the more open one is to recognizing the partialness of one's own truth and the possibility of other useful truths. As Schwaber (1983a) notes, "Thus, as reality, for each of us represents only our own psychic view--even of ourselves--the notion of an attainable certainty of an ultimately knowable reality must be regarded as illusory, a perspective often most difficult to sustain, perhaps because it is disquieting" (p. 523).…”

Section: Empathy and Constructionism With African-americansmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Working from the empathic mode in the transference relationship, the therapist aligns herself or himself with the patient's introspective view by clarifying what actions and characteristics of the therapist contribute to the transference reactions. Schwaber (1983a) notes that her mode of listening "is characterized by my sustained effort to seek out my place in the patient's experience, as part of the context that is perceived or felt" (p. 523). Schwaber feels that this therapist activity is especially helpful in getting the patient to explore and clarify his or her experience.…”

Section: The "Empathic-introspective" Viewmentioning

confidence: 97%

Dynamics of the relationship in clinical work with African-American clients

Jenkins

1990

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It has been clear for some time that traditional approaches to psychotherapy do not necessarily translate in a simple and direct fashion to work with minorities, especially to persons of lower-and working-class background. Stanley Sue (1977) documents the difficulty mental health professionals have had in keeping minority clients in treatment. Nevertheless, it seems clear that problems in clinical work with minorities are not simply due to a wholesale inapropriateness of traditional psychotherapeutic methods. Rather, difficulties are at least partly due to our incomplete understanding of how therapy works with anyone--even when client and therapist are of White, middle-class background.On the other hand, we do know some things. Although there are clearly culture-specific factors that therapists must be aware of in the therapeutic situation, so-called traditional theory is continually developing and is itself affected by changes in cultural conceptions. Witness the current concern with narcissism and interest in the psychology of the self. I believe that there are

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“…Yet a number of schools do not subscribe to this requirement, or they discuss the crucial analytic phenomena in different language. I am thinking of self psychology, with its emphasis on empathic listening and recognition of empathic failures as central to mutative process (Schwaber 1983;Kohut 1984); of control-mastery theory, which, based on Freudian ego psychology, sees the patient as unconsciously planning his own cure, rather than resisting as a protection against exposure of his unconscious impulses (Weiss and Sampson 1986); or of relational theory, which deemphasizes transference in favor of a focus on interaction processes as co-constructions within the dyad (Hoffman 1998).…”

Section: Lodestar Touchstone Shibbolethmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading Freud’s “the Dynamics of Transference” one Hundred Years Later

Almond¹

2011

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Freud's technical papers, "The Dynamics of Transference" in particular, established most of the basis for a century of clinical psychoanalytic work. A contemporary reading of that paper illustrates both the power of the original presentation and how far we have come. Close readings are given of crucial passages, including retranslations where Strachey's English arguably distorts Freud's language or intent. More broadly, Freud's conclusions are examined to reveal correspondences with current thinking or its foreshadowing. Although Freud drove toward unifying conclusions, he at the same time described a disparate array of clinical phenomena. The paper's central points are situated historically, both in Freud's evolution and in the subsequent evolution toward the pluralistic clinical theory of today. Freud encountered many of the challenges we face, noting them in ways both clinically useful and fruitful for other theorists. The use of the paper's central tenets is traced historically, showing how ideas that provide a radical, liberating, and facilitating guide for analysts can over time devolve into hackneyed rules. Finally, it is noted how transference phenomena are increasingly being discussed as a specific type of dyadic human experience. The task in the coming century is to develop theory and vocabulary for comprehending these phenomena and integrating them with Freud's intrapsychic concepts.

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A Particular Perspective on Analytic Listening

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

Contemporary psychoanalysis and hypnosis

Contemporary psychoanalysis and hypnosis

Dynamics of the relationship in clinical work with African-American clients

Reading Freud’s “the Dynamics of Transference” one Hundred Years Later

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