Procedural Interpretation: A Method of Working Between the Lines in the Nonverbal Realm

Herzog, Bruce

doi:10.1080/07351690.2011.552050

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“…I am not convinced that verbal interpretations, however accurate, were particularly helpful in these cases. My sense was that the disjunction that occurred with these patients took place within the nonverbal, procedural (see Herzog, 2001) realm, and that verbal interpretation was usually seen as a denial of their experience; even as a denial of their grief over the loss of their previous therapist. Further, would their acceptance of what I said not confirm my usefulness as a therapist, which contradicted what they were feeling about me, and, as well, made me a competitor with their previous analyst for their respect and affection?…”

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Second Hand Rose: Attempting a Difficult Second Analysis as Second-Best Analyst

Herzog

2011

International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

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Certain kinds of second analyses are destined to be difficult. The situation where a patient is compelled to leave a highly idealized analyst to seek another analyst's help is replete with opportunities for the patient to find the new analyst to be irretrievably disappointing. A powerful idealizing transference to the previous analyst can function to obscure and redirect feelings of abandonment and hostility. In addition, allowing a new, positive therapeutic alliance constitutes a threat to one's fidelity to the previous analytic experience, which may need to be protected at all costs. Three brief case examples illustrate how this dynamic can lead to a disrupted second analytic endeavor. Taking on a second analysis may require the new analyst to use a different approach, particularly when an idealizing transference in the first analytic relationship is interrupted in such a way that the development of another therapeutic alliance becomes an impossibility.

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Second Hand Rose: Attempting a Difficult Second Analysis as Second-Best Analyst

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2011

International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

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“…7 The concept of relational states involves a new way of thinking about transference and transference interpretation. The transference might be seen as the activation of a particular relational state, and the interpretation as a means to help the patient organize the procedural (non-verbal) elements of the state into symbolic thought (Herzog, 2001). The entire process serves to improve the reflective capacity of the individual by allowing the current relational state to be consciously apprehended, understood, and modified-from within an overriding reflective state established in the analysis.…”

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Shifting Relational States, Activators, and the Variable Unconscious: Towards a New Psychoanalytic Theory of Awareness

Herzog

2012

International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

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This article uses three clinical vignettes to propose a revised model of the unconscious, arising from "template theory," which views the individual as possessing multiple "relational templates," observable patterns of relatedness encoded during development and manifesting themselves in automatic relational behavior. A relational template contains two roles, and either role can be occupied, a phenomenon described as "role exchangeability." The grouping of template role, with its corresponding affects and memories is defined as a "relational state." Each relational state has its level of awareness and unawareness, which changes when "state shifting" is initiated by an "activator." Fluctuating change in the level of unawareness is identified as the "variable unconscious." Controlled movement between relational states can be directed by the overriding function of an individual's reflective abilities, derived from their "reflective state," and enhanced by analytic interpretation (which converts procedural phenomena into symbolic thought.)

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“…There are times in the therapeutic process when it is preferable for the therapist to demonstrate understanding through behavior as well as words. This kind of intervention can be referred to as a "procedural interpretation" (Herzog, 2011), where the therapist conveys his or her understanding behaviorally at the nonverbal, presymbolic, procedural level of experience in order to communicate within the realm of the patient's relational knowledge.…”

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The fantasy relationship: Repetition’s antidote and an explanation for resilience.

Herzog¹

2018

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Resilient patients from pathological backgrounds can manifest an ability to defy unacceptable relational experience and replace it with a wished-for way of relating: the "fantasy relationship." Through the negation of each bad interaction, the fantasy of a potential good interaction is necessarily created, contributing to the evolving construction of an idealized parent-child dyad in the imagination. Attempts to actualize a fantasy relationship in reality involve occupying either of the 2 roles in the dyadic fantasy-that of the ideally loved child or the ideally loving parent-a phenomenon described as "role exchangeability." The fantasy relationship is an improvement on the repetition of maladaptive relational patterns, but because fantasy involves more flawless idealization than pragmatic experience, applying it leaves one vulnerable to rage reactions if others refuse to correctly occupy the accompanying role. Through a successful therapeutic process, an alternative form of relating can develop, one that is sufficiently idealizable, yet flexible, forgiving, and pragmatically attainable.

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Procedural Interpretation: A Method of Working Between the Lines in the Nonverbal Realm

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Second Hand Rose: Attempting a Difficult Second Analysis as Second-Best Analyst

Second Hand Rose: Attempting a Difficult Second Analysis as Second-Best Analyst

Shifting Relational States, Activators, and the Variable Unconscious: Towards a New Psychoanalytic Theory of Awareness

The fantasy relationship: Repetition’s antidote and an explanation for resilience.

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