Conviction and Interpretation: Hiding and Seeking with Words

Grusky, Zenobia

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“…In recent literature this certainty has been described as conviction. Although it is difficult to concretely define conviction, it has been depicted as a belief in one's capacity to successfully integrate thinking and feeling and translate this into confident clinical decision making (Almond, 2003; Goldberg & Grusky, 2004; Grusky, 2002). According to Grusky (2002), the development of conviction is an ongoing “back and forth process which involves matching theory to a feeling-based clinical choice” (p. 88).…”

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“…Although it is difficult to concretely define conviction, it has been depicted as a belief in one's capacity to successfully integrate thinking and feeling and translate this into confident clinical decision making (Almond, 2003; Goldberg & Grusky, 2004; Grusky, 2002). According to Grusky (2002), the development of conviction is an ongoing “back and forth process which involves matching theory to a feeling-based clinical choice” (p. 88). To avoid confusion, it is necessary to differentiate the ongoing act of pursuing conviction with the possible end point of certainty or a sense of knowing.…”

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Learning in an increasingly multitheoretical psychoanalytic culture: Impact on the development of analytic identity.

Lhulier

2005

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The purpose of this study is to examine the analytic trainee's increasingly complicated learning experiences, the environmental and contextual challenges candidates face, and the unique internal battles often engaged throughout the development of professional identity. The method aims to chart the internal and external learning processes of the trainee as they interact and remain distinct. Students of psychoanalysis face a culture of exploding theoretical growth, ongoing intense debate, and decreasing popularity within the community at large. Furthermore, trainees are immersed within specific training contexts that inevitably shape their advancing understanding of analytic theory and technique. Clinical vignettes, developmental theory, and an examination of conviction are offered to further understanding of the current stressors influencing the trainee's pursuit for analytic identity. It is suggested that analysts need to better understand the ongoing nature of developing an analytic identity within specific contexts, and become more aware of how they affect this process.

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Learning in an increasingly multitheoretical psychoanalytic culture: Impact on the development of analytic identity.

Lhulier

2005

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The Analytic Pair in Action

Herbert

2006

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

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The case of a musician/performer whose disposition and identity involved action as a privileged modality and whose initial presentation included the absence of a palpable mental life is used to show how the analyst's urge to disclose/to fill in what was unknown was midwife to the development of a symbolizing capacity and an articulated mental life. The patient at first could only tell her story by showing and doing and so the analyst's participation in the actualization of the narrative was vital to its discovery. Relationships between the patient's unusual mental structure, including her proclivity for action, the use of projective mechanisms, and an ease with the concretization of fantasy are discussed with reference to her endowment as a gifted musical composer; and her identity as an "artist. " Technical strategies and difficulties in arriving at a 'best' technique are discussed as the analyst struggled to locate the patient developmentally, and to contain and permit difficult transference/countertransference enactments to unfold. Reflections on parallels to child/adolescent developmental necessities enabled the evolution of a viable technique.

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The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency

Goldberg

Grusky²

2004

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the analytic process in which the pursuit of understanding is systematically undermined. In response, the analyst is susceptible to being drawn in to processes of mutual seduction, false conviction, and impasse. Through the analyst's partial living out of the patient's projective identifications (and eventually observing the patient's living out of the analyst's projective identifications), the analyst is able to gain a depth of understanding of the patient, of him- or herself, and of the interaction that might not otherwise be possible. Because analysts tend to employ theory defensively, it is essential that they attend, through self-analysis and consultation, to the ways in which they use it. Two cases are presented in which prolonged impasses were eventually understood and resolved.

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Conviction and Interpretation: Hiding and Seeking with Words

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Learning in an increasingly multitheoretical psychoanalytic culture: Impact on the development of analytic identity.

Learning in an increasingly multitheoretical psychoanalytic culture: Impact on the development of analytic identity.

The Analytic Pair in Action

The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency

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