Dialogues on Conflict: Toward an Integration of Methods

Smith, Henry F.

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“…The analysis of resistance as a key element in an analytic process has been emphasized by analysts who operate from some variant of the structural model (e.g. But Smith (2003Smith ( , 2005 notes that even analysts who do not anchor their thinking in terms of intrapsychic conflict do, in reality, analyze clinical phenomena that can be understood in terms of such conflict; hence Weinshel's perspective should apply to other persuasions. Weinshel (1984Weinshel ( , 1990aWeinshel ( , 1990b clearly articulated the centrality of negotiating and analyzing resistance in the analytic process, anchoring his view in structural theory and the ubiquitousness of conflict and compromise formation.…”

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“…Weinshel (1984Weinshel ( , 1990aWeinshel ( , 1990b clearly articulated the centrality of negotiating and analyzing resistance in the analytic process, anchoring his view in structural theory and the ubiquitousness of conflict and compromise formation. But Smith (2003Smith ( , 2005 notes that even analysts who do not anchor their thinking in terms of intrapsychic conflict do, in reality, analyze clinical phenomena that can be understood in terms of such conflict; hence Weinshel's perspective should apply to other persuasions.…”

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Child versus adult psychoanalysis: Two processes or one?

Sugarman

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Child analysis continues to be seen as a different technique from adult analysis because children are still involved in a developmental process and because the primary objects continue to play active roles in their lives. This paper argues that this is a false dichotomy. An extended vignette of the analysis of a latency-aged girl is used to demonstrate that the psychoanalytic process that develops in child analysis is structurally the same as that in adult analysis. Both revolve around the analysis of resistance and transference and use both to promote knowledge of the patient's mind at work. And both techniques formulate interventions based on the analyst's appraisal of the patient's mental organization. It is hoped that stressing the essential commonality of both techniques will promote the development of an overarching theory of psychoanalytic technique.

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Child versus adult psychoanalysis: Two processes or one?

Sugarman

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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“…In assessing clinical process, we need to keep in mind that behaviors can be directly observed, but that theories are constructed to explain the observed facts and that more than one theoretical option is always available (Meissner 1989(Meissner , 1991. Nevertheless, as Smith (2005) has astutely commented, it may be that such a distinction is less necessary when we are looking for motives to explain behaviors-although drives and wishes are on different levels of abstraction, motives when conscious can be revealed directly in the form of reasons or inferred directly from the patient's behavior, and, when unconscious, can be elicited indirectly and clarified by free association or inquiry. In this sense, analytic associations are actions of the conscious self-as-subject, presumed to be motivated in some degree by unconscious motives operative within the self-as-agent.…”

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The Question of Drive VS. Motive in Psychoanalysis: a Modest Proposal

Meissner

2009

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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This essay explores the possibility of an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing psychoanalytic instinctual drive theory whose theoretical and clinical validity has been variously critiqued and challenged. Arguments are suggested in support of the concept of motive as a viable alternative theory to the drive theory and as a replacement for the traditional instinctual drive model. Issues discussed include the understanding of the mind-body relation, the meaning of psychic determinism and overdetermination, the opposition of drive vs. motive (and the related distinction of cause vs. motive), the meaning of psychic energy, and the difference between the concept of drives as the source of all mental energy and the concept of personal agency. The discussion concludes with some observations on the clinical implications of these concepts.

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“…Ambiguity has become a central theme in contemporary psychoanalysis. Theoretical ambiguity, or pluralism, is the subject of works by Hoffmann (1998), Pine (1998), Smith (2005), and many others. In the area of technique, Friedman (2005) notes a tendency to flee ambiguity toward the relative comfort of viewing the analytic relationship as all "actual" (Gray, Busch) or all "virtual" (Klein, Kohut).…”

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Loewald's “Binocular Vision” and the Art of Analysis

Miller

2008

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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In his 1988 monograph on sublimation, Hans Loewald describes the process as a transformation of the drives aimed at re-creating what he presumes to be the subjective experience of infantile attachment. To describe this experience, he invokes a state of mind that he calls "binocular vision." He maintains that this mental state may arise not only in activities usually associated with sublimation, such as the creation and enjoyment of art, but in all forms of sublimation, including effective psychoanalysis. Because Loewald's discussion is largely theoretical, it does not convey how the concept of binocular vision may inform clinical technique and interdisciplinary study. A comparative application of his theory to psychoanalytic process and to the viewer's response to art enables one to grasp binocular vision as a common aspect of both. It emerges as a useful model with which to conceptualize and integrate the ambiguous reality of analytic experience.

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Dialogues on Conflict: Toward an Integration of Methods

Cited by 16 publications

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Child versus adult psychoanalysis: Two processes or one?

Child versus adult psychoanalysis: Two processes or one?

The Question of Drive VS. Motive in Psychoanalysis: a Modest Proposal

Loewald's “Binocular Vision” and the Art of Analysis

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