The Impact of Delusion and the Delusion of Impact

Giovacchini, Peter L.

doi:10.1080/00107530.1977.10745507

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“…From that moment on therapy began to succeed." An example given by Giovacchini (1977) illustrates this as well. His psychotic patient's delusions at first involved Giovacchini in protective actions, but to no effect, and his patient eventually ended up in jail.…”

Section: Deviations From the Analytic Attitudementioning

confidence: 85%

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Analytical Psychology and Countertransference

Fordham

1979

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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IN THIS PAPER I SHALL APPROACH the subject of countertransference from the point of view of analytical Uungian) psychology. Since this differs historically and conceptually from classical psychoanalysis I will begin by explicating Jung's position and then consider how his followers have criticized, modified, and developed his point of view. Jung conceived analytic practice to be a dialectical process between two involved persons. By implication he advocated what has lately been called an open systems viewpoint. A closed system is one with clearly defined limits or boundaries. When this obtains there may be two persons related to each other but functioning as two different entities. In their conversation words have an agreed meaning or, if there are dysjunctions in their communications, these can be clarified if necessary by reference to the psychical system of one or the other. Open systems, on the other hand, are those in which boundaries do not have fixed definitions with the result that the two systems interact and change in relation to each other. Difficulties or confusions therefore require a change in both psychical systems before validation is possible.Developments in psychoanalysis appear to have led psychoanalysts close to conceptions being worked on by analytical psychologists, particularly in London. I have used the work of psychoanalysts extensively and I recognize that many of my propositions were considered before I thought of them. However, since this article is about analytical psychology I shall not refer to their specific publications but will content myself by making a general I This paper was written originally for the book Countertransference: The Therapst's Conhibutions to Treatment, ed.

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Section: Deviations From the Analytic Attitudementioning

confidence: 85%

“…Giovacchini (1977) infers as much when he describes another patient who made excessive demands upon him. He be-ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE came furious and told him so.…”

Section: Deviations From the Analytic Attitudementioning

confidence: 92%

Analytical Psychology and Countertransference

Fordham

1979

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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“…Without conceptualizing it as such, many authors have implicitly referred to it or highlighted its characteristics (for example, Boyer, 1977;Eigen, 1977;Giovacchini, 1977;Modell, 1976;Moeller, 1977;Searles, 1965). …”

Section: Ps Yc H O D Y Sis"mentioning

confidence: 98%

Narcissistic Countertransference

Spotnitz

1979

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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“…Analysts wrote of successful work with patients who were unlike earlier descriptions of the ideal analysand (e.g., Abend, Porder, & Willick, 1983Kohut, 1979;Modell, 1973Modell, , 1975Modell, , 1978Modell, , 1979Rothstein, 1980Rothstein, , 1994Rothstein, , 1998and Searles, 1965, to name a few). Giovacchini (1977) recapitulated Ferenczi (1931) when he stated that when a patient did not get better in analysis it was often due to the analyst's limitations, not the patient's, and Searles (1979) similarly wrote, I have found over and over that stalemates in the treatment . .…”

Section: Analyzabilitymentioning

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“…Analysts wrote of successful work with patients who were unlike earlier descriptions of the ideal analysand (e.g., Abend, Porder, & Willick, 1983, 1988; Kohut, 1979; Modell, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979; Rothstein, 1980, 1994, 1998; and Searles, 1965, to name a few). Giovacchini (1977) recapitulated Ferenczi (1931) when he stated that when a patient did not get better in analysis it was often due to the analyst's limitations, not the patient's, and Searles (1979) similarly wrote, I have found over and over that stalemates in the treatment … involve the analyst's receiving currently a kind of therapeutic support from the patient of which both patient and analyst have been unconscious… . The patient's illness is expressive of his unconscious attempt to cure the doctor.…”

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Psychological testing and analyzability: Breathing new life into an old issue.

Peebles-Kleiger¹,

Horwitz²,

Kleiger³

et al. 2006

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The construct of analyzability (i.e., selecting for psychoanalysis) has been with us for 101 years. It has been extensively discussed and extensively debated. Most recently, it has been proposed that the construct has expired, due to the shrinking pool of people interested in undergoing psychoanalysis and the expanding meaning of what psychoanalysis is. The present authors briefly summarize the life and near-death of the construct, and suggest resuscitation, but only with revamping. More specifically, we insist that thoughtful treatment planning is always essential for focus, safety, and effectiveness of any treatment, including psychoanalysis. If we transition to a paradigm of "mapping" the patient's structural strengths and weaknesses, via a particular approach to psychological testing outlined in this article, we pay respect to the unpredictable and complex array of shiftings, moment-to-moment, within the psychoanalytic relational encounter, and thereby offer the analyst a chance at foresight that is relevant, intelligent, and attuned.In a chapter titled "The End of Analyzability," Michael Moskowitz (1996) declared, "Even though the issue [of analyzability] is dead, its ghost remains an immortal presence" (p. 179). Remembering Mark Twain, we believe that reports of the demise of the concept of analyzability have been "greatly exaggerated," and the concept warrants rescue from a premature grave. The purpose of this article is to use concepts from the model of psychological testing developed at the Menninger Clinic to reenergize the assessment of

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The Impact of Delusion and the Delusion of Impact

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Analytical Psychology and Countertransference

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Psychological testing and analyzability: Breathing new life into an old issue.

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