Therapeutic change: Perspectives of self psychology

Terman, David M.

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“…Gedo (1979) boldly stated that: "Prin-2 I mention these technical changes with approval of both the specific technical advances referred to and the process by which they came to benefit practice. The negative tone of my argument is addressed entirely to the claims, rival to mine, that changes in technique have been driven by increased psychoanalytic understanding of the mind or improved understanding of the process of therapeutic change (e.g., Terman 1989). ciples of psychoanalytic practice . .…”

Section: Clinical Technique Is Not Entailed In Psychoanalytic Theorymentioning

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“…It is one thing to assume that development follows an epigenetic scheme, but quite another to claim that in therapy, all earlier vicissitudes must be dealt with. There is no evidence for Gedo's claim, even from within the self psychological theoretical camp from which the suggestion emanates (Kohut 1984;Terman 1989). In fact, the differences between Kohut's and Gedo's therapeutic approaches illustrate the absence of a deductive tie between the epigenetic model to which self psychologists subscribe and the technical propositions that are claimed to relate to these.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Some Complexities in the Relationship of Psychoanalytic Theory to Technique

Fonagy¹

2003

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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This paper considers the current fragmentation of psychoanalytic theory as a result of the illusorily close association of practice and theory. The author argues that the politically motivated assertion of a direct connection between theory and practice should be set aside and that practice should be liberated from theory, permitting theory to evolve in the context of radically modified patterns of practice. If theory were decoupled from practice, technique might progress on purely pragmatic grounds, on the basis of what is seen to work. Psychoanalytic theory of mental function could then follow practice, integrating what is newly discovered through innovative methods of clinical work. Such a pragmatic, principally action-oriented use of theory would bring psychoanalysis more in line with modern, postempirical views of science.

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Section: Clinical Technique Is Not Entailed In Psychoanalytic Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Clinical Technique Is Not Entailed In Psychoanalytic Theorymentioning

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Some Complexities in the Relationship of Psychoanalytic Theory to Technique

Fonagy¹

2003

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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“…Kohut, 1984, pp. 103–4; Terman, 1989) – also stress the importance of ‘something more’. This is the perspective of the facilitation of ‘moving along’, of experiential possibilities.…”

Section: Psychoanalysis: Archaeology or Teleology?mentioning

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“…This may happen in the event that the patient feels the analyst has responded to, and understood, him ⁄ her in an unexpected way (Stolorow, 1986). The condition for the new relationship is the experience of the analyst's reciprocal presence (Terman, 1989), which is illusionary (in the same sense as Winnicott's third area) as it can neither be stated nor denied.…”

Section: Psychoanalysis: Archaeology or Teleology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflection in psychoanalysis: On symbols and metaphors

Enckell¹

2010

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalysis is an art of reflection, i.e. it tries to facilitate the subject's retrieval of his own self. The 'material' to be reflected upon consists of the products of human symbolization. But there are two views of reflection. In one, the self is searched in a temporal, structural and procedural 'anterior' (the model of archaeology). In the other the self is to be found in a still evolving meaning process, i.e. it resides in a 'future' (the model of teleology). Both these pictures are common in psychoanalysis. The aim of this paper is to study the figures of symbolization through the archaeology/teleology reflection model. The author tries to show that 'symbol' leans on archaeology while 'metaphor' comprises a teleological conception. In order to show the relevance of this finding, the author draws the outlines of both an archaeological and a teleological model in psychoanalysis. It is stated that the former builds on an inherent symbol model while the figure for the latter is metaphor.

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“…In his final article, he suggested that "empathy per se, the mere presence of empathy," might have a "therapeutic effect" (Kohut, 1982, p. 397). Terman (1988Terman ( , 1989 greatly elaborated this notion. He described how the empathic bond with the therapist and the patient's experience of being understood are intrinsic parts of structure formation and the curative process itself.…”

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The application of self psychology to brief psychotherapy.

Gardner¹

1991

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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This article seeks to establish brief or time-limited psychotherapy as an appropriate domain for the application of self psychology. In this form of treatment, the central focus of the therapist's attention is on the state of the patient's self and on the establishment of a self-selfobject bond as the matrix for change. Whatever the specific precipitants, symptoms, and treatment goals, the therapist attends to ways in which the self is vulnerable, injured, or arrested. The therapist understands symptoms as manifestations of these deficits and enables the patient to establish a selfobject matrix which will facilitate the self s repair and growth. Empathic interpretations which articulate and legitimize the patient's frustrated selfobject longings are continuously offered in an explicit and active way. When conducted along these lines, even a brief treatment relationship may serve to reinstate a previously arrested process of development and structure building. A case example illustrates these principles and provides the reader with an experience in detail of the unfolding therapeutic and developmental process.

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Therapeutic change: Perspectives of self psychology

Cited by 9 publications

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Some Complexities in the Relationship of Psychoanalytic Theory to Technique

Some Complexities in the Relationship of Psychoanalytic Theory to Technique

Reflection in psychoanalysis: On symbols and metaphors

The application of self psychology to brief psychotherapy.

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