New Frontiers of Relational Thinking in Psychoanalysis

Developing a prototype for Psychoanalysis of Relationship therapy. An empirical study with the Psychotherapy Process Q-set

“…In the former paradigm the emphasis is on two subjects in interaction, they change while entering in contact with one's own world. While in the latter paradigm the accent is on the relationship and the third, the relational dimensions are related much more to the ruptures and repairs of the therapeutic alliance (Benjamin, 2017).The importance of the therapist's tact, availability, sense of equality and absence of feelings of superiority and directionality are all equally stressed (Minolli, 2021). All this leads to a progressive importance of the observer, of the subject, in a continuous reciprocal interaction as pointed out by Ceruti (Ceruti, 1985).…”

“…As Minolli (2021) wrote, in this diatribe "between the historical faith in the objectivity of knowledge and the discovery of the subjectivity of the observer, there is a strong risk of slipping towards a radical relativism or a reactive authoritarianism" (Minolli, 2021;p.362).…”

“…The theoretical and methodological paradigm poses emphasis on the relationship not as a relational matrix (Michell S.A., 1993. ), but instead as an interaction between two I-subjects (Minolli, 1917(Minolli, , 2021 in the here and now of the analytic relationship. In the former paradigm the emphasis is on two subjects in interaction, they change while entering in contact with one's own world.…”