Psychoanalytic Theory and its Relation to Clinical Work

Schwaber, Evelyne Albrecht

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“…Kohut (1971) reported, as an example of countertransference, "the tendency of some ana lysts ... to respond with erroneous or premature or otherwise faulty interpretations when they are idealized by their patients" (p. 138). In line with the two-person approach Schwaber (1993) (Orange, 1994;Schwaber, 1983, p. 381;Thomson, 1994). For example.…”

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“…389-390) Thomson (1994) re marks that "ultimately, the analyst, by means of inner processing, may be able to convert his anger, hurt, or other aversive reactions into signals so that they no longer block access to the kernels of truth in the patient's observations" (p. 135). Schwaber (1983) On the same issue, Schwaber (1993) said "I have observed more generally that a feeling of struggle with a patient, however scarcely and sub tly perceived within ourselves, may be a salient indicator that we are trying to guide the patient to see it our way" (p. 1049).…”

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“…Kohut (1971) reported, as an example of countertransference, "the tendency of some analysts … to respond with erroneous or premature or otherwise faulty interpretations when they are idealized by their patients" (p. 138). In line with the two-person approach Schwaber (1993) defined countertransference as "reflecting a retreat from the patient’s vantage point toward an added certainty in the correctness of one’s own" (p. 1051). On the other hand, Stolorow has used the wider definition of countertransference as the totality of the analyst’s psychological structures and organizing activity.…”

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The intersubjective perspective and the client-centered approach: Are they one at their core?

Kahn¹

1996

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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This article reviews the change from a one-person to a two-person psychology in psychoanalysis. In particular, Robert Stolorow's intersubjectivity theory is presented and then contrasted with the client-centered approach to therapy. It is concluded that contemporary clientcentered therapy is a two-person psychology, and that well-trained clientcentered therapists do reflect on their own subjectivity andhowit influences the client. With their important similarities it seems that the client-centered and self psychology approaches to therapy are one at their core. Self psychology has more elaborate theorizing about the therapy process, while the clientcentered approach is interested in applying its principles outside of therapy so that people can live more constructively.

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The intersubjective perspective and the client-centered approach: Are they one at their core?

Kahn¹

1996

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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“…Attunement, or affective synchrony similar to musical harmony, captures an affective resonance with the analysand's experience that is invaluable in bringing unconscious patterns to light and helping patients feel deeply understood. Some analysts are so moved by the power of this experience that they equate it with therapeutic action (e.g., Schwaber, 1990Schwaber, , 1992Schwaber, , 2005. However, this clinical strategy, being limited to topographic shifts, lacks a concept for creating the new form necessary for the goal of self formation.…”

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Psychoanalysis: Romantic, not wild.

Summers¹

2011

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The thesis of this article is that a decisive shift has occurred in analytic aim from dynamic and form "normativity," or preconceived psychic outcome, to an open-ended process, the result of which is not foreseen. This shift in analytic theory and technique is related to the transformation in the humanities in the early 19th century from neoclassicism to the Romantic Movement. In opposition to the neoclassical ideal for art and life as the Greek and Roman forms, the romantic theorists and poets found such a preconceived ideal as stifling of human potential, passion, and creativity. Analogously, psychoanalysis has moved from a theory aiming at a preconceived outcome defined as psychic structure to an open-ended view that defines the process by a method of inquiry for the realization of latent and inhibited psychic capacities. Just as the Romantics saw the highest good as Bildung, or the actualization of self potential, so the focus of contemporary psychoanalysis is on the realization of the uniqueness of the self rather than the establishment of a given psychic form. This interpretation of analysis is contrasted to "wild analysis," which is atypically characterized as the imposition of psychic form on the analytic process. The proposed concept of analysis as an analogue of the Romantic interpretation of the human condition has specific technical implications focusing on the creation of new ways of being and relating. A clinical case is presented to show the concrete implications of this Romantic view of analysis.

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“…This concern is one I have expressed elsewhere and more generally (Schwaber, 1987(Schwaber, , 1992. There is an epistemological ambiguity in his listening position.…”

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