The Patient and the Analyst

Sandler, Joseph; Dare, Christopher; Holder, Alex; Dreher, Anna Ursula

doi:10.4324/9780429482687

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“…Furthermore, the growth that takes place outside the context of therapy creates a kind of experimental laboratory for the trial of therapeutic achievements, which in turn, results in a positive circle wherein the principles of the therapeutic world are practiced in the outside world, and the barriers and facilitators encountered in the outside world are investigated in the therapeutic domain. These observations agree with the theoretical texts on repetition compulsion and resistance (e.g., Freud, 1900, 1914, 1920), nonpathological space (e.g., Gabbard, 2004; Sandler, Dare, Holder, & Dreher, 1992), barriers and facilitators of therapy (Lilliengren & Werbart, 2005, 2010), and therapist errors and the impact of countertransference on resistance and identity resistance (Cabaniss, Cherry, Douglas, & Schwartz, 2011; Fenichel, 1945; Freud, 1895).…”

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confidence: 85%

Process of object relation therapy based on transference and potential space in patients with major depressive disorder: A grounded theory study.

Ghafouri

Dehghani

Summers

et al. 2020

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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This study involved 18 patients who received object relations therapy-an analytic therapy based on transference and potential space-after having been diagnosed with major depressive disorder via the clinician version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 1996). In-depth interviews were carried out to the point of saturation, after which the experiences of the patients were used as the basis for establishing an independent substantive theory. The findings were categorized into the following themes: context of therapy, barriers to therapy, facilitators of therapy, analytical dyad formation, the development of self-awareness and self-expression, and the realized self. Analyzing patients' experiences with therapy can play an important role in filling the conceptual gaps of object relations therapy and in identifying its therapeutic effects, which can expand its applicability to other disorders.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Process of object relation therapy based on transference and potential space in patients with major depressive disorder: A grounded theory study.

Ghafouri

Dehghani

Summers

et al. 2020

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…When this happens, it must be principally from what the patient understands about what is happening. What is important is not the verification of the truth of the experience but the acceptance of the ‘narrative truth’ (Sandler et al ., 1992 ) of the patient’s experience. Thus, what the transference can reasonably be said to reveal are the processes that exist and are active currently in the internal psychological terrain, regardless of their origin (Kauff, 2016 ).…”

Section: Interpretation As a Relational Process Of Making Meaningmentioning

confidence: 99%

A re-consideration of interpretation. A relational approach

Knight

2021

RES PSYCHOTHER-PSYCH

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This paper is a discussion paper and it seeks to re-consider the Freudian psychoanalytic concept of interpretation within the relational approach to psychoanalysis. As such, it aims to argue the Freudian approach to interpretation is rejected because it is not relational but involves only the analyst as interpreter of the patient’s experience. Instead, within the relational approach, it is suggested that if interpretation, as a process of making meaning of experiences, is re-considered as the outcome of the intersubjective relationship in which the process of making-meaning is essentially a co-creational process of the patient’s experience of the analyst in the here-and-now, interpretation can potentially be an agent of change. The clinical implication is that interpretation must be the construction of the patient’s meaning of his experience but within the relational context. A clinical verbatim transcript is documented as it illustrates this relational process in interpretation.

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“… An extensive literature has been produced by clinical psychoanalysts concerning their use of interpretation as a therapeutic technique (e.g. Freud, 1986;Sandler et al, 1992;Sinason, 2010).  There are specific differences between the clinical setting and the research context.…”

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confidence: 99%