Vicissitudes of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation

Thompson, M. Guy

doi:10.1080/00107530.2006.10745879

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“…Suffering as a context for growth in virtues is a well-known theme in spiritual contexts and trainee counsellors who hold a Christian worldview predominantly connect pain and struggle with growing courage as evidenced in the data. Thompson (2006, cited in Woodard, 2010 speaks of the 'wisdom of submitting to suffering and making use of it' in the pursuit of authentic living. Olthuis (2001:199) reflects on therapists of faith and their ability to 'suffer-with', 'Knowing that we need not dispel the darkness ourselves because the darkness has been dispelled... we can gather up our courage and cry with those who cry and groan with those who groan -because there is hope.…”

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Out of the trenches: An Interpretative phenomenological analysis of trainee counsellors’ experiences of courage in the therapeutic domain

Thomas¹

2021

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Counsellors are encouraged by the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) to periodically examine the internal values that shape the development of relationships with clients. Embedded within these values is courage -the 'capacity to act, in spite of known fears, risks and uncertainty' (BACP, 2016b) -a complex intra-and inter-personal dynamic, rarely the subject of conscious reflection. An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study using semi-structured interviews was undertaken with five counselling trainees, all attending a British educational institution and nearing the completion of their training. The research question was:What are trainee counsellors' experiences of courage in the therapeutic domain? Three themes were established as relevant to a trainee's experience of courage: courage as an expression of 'form'; courage as an ethical act; and courage expressed within systems. The review of the extant literature highlighted the multidimensional nature of courage and revealed the lack of qualitative evidence to support mainly theoretical findings. If counsellors are to consciously examine their own courage, it would seem valuable to ascertain where courage is needed and how it is experienced by fellow counsellors. The findings provide rich evidence of the embodied, holistic, and systemic nature of courage. This offers a resource for counselling trainers in the development of a courageous mindset as well as for counsellors themselves as they reflect on their ever-growing capacity for courage in their life and work.Over the last ten years, Lucy has served as a deacon for marriage strengthening and marriage preparation at her local Church and is passionate about welcome, inclusion, hospitality and creating spaces where people feel seen and heard.

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Out of the trenches: An Interpretative phenomenological analysis of trainee counsellors’ experiences of courage in the therapeutic domain

Thomas¹

2021

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“…In recent decades, relational theorists such as Mitchell (1992) have embraced authenticity as a central developmental therapeutic goal. These writers characterize authenticity as unconventional modes of self‐expression, sometimes difficult to attain, but rewarding for personal development, always contingent on specific contexts (Thompson, 2006). Relationalists also argued that authenticity should be defined in dialogical terms, linked with ethical principles, as causing people to feel gradually more real (Safran, 2017) and ‘less shaped by the configurations and limited options’ of various relational contexts (Mitchell,1988, p. 295).…”

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Authentic Voices in Supervision

Yerushalmi¹

2020

Brit J Psychotherapy

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Analytic thinkers incorporated the significance of authenticity for human development and therapeutic processes into their theories. I suggest that, consequently, supervisors search for the supervisees' authentic voices, often masked by unconscious rhetorical devices, and for the patients' authentic voices hidden in the supervisees' voices. Assuming a poetic stance for listening, which highlights the speakers' unique use of language, beyond the lexical and the prosaic, enables supervisors to perceive and construct implicit musical patterns and symbols woven into the supervisees' communications. This stance allows the supervisors to perceive the supervisees' authentic voices, free from their distracting rhetoric, and to imagine the patients' voices in the supervisees' heads. When supervisors differentiate and integrate various perceiving and reflective modes that characterize the poetic stance, they function as identification models for the supervisees in their development as analytic therapists.

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“…Several theorists have recognized the patient’s authenticity (Thompson, 2006) and agency in the project of self‐creation and self‐discovery (Bollas, 1992; Pollock and J. Slavin, 1998; J. Slavin et al, 1998; Strenger, 2004; Summers, 2005) but the link between agency, authenticity, and public life has not been well established.…”

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Between private and public: towards a conception of the transitional subject

Gentile

2008

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Elaborating upon Winnicott's seminal contributions on the transitional object, the author proposes a conception of a transitional subject in which the patient comes into being simultaneously between private and public, subjective creation and material life, me and not-me. By anchoring subjective creation in the real world (including the body), the patient creates a basis for authentic psychesoma as well as for both personal and symbolic contributions to the world beyond omnipotence, including the world of other subjects. In this sense, intersubjective life is seen as predicated upon transitionality, with the patient seen as simultaneously coming into being as a distinctly personal subject and, in part, as a symbol. Clinical phenomenology is described and is interpreted with respect to the need within psychoanalysis itself for a third, and for a realm of meaning-creation that lies beyond privacy, omnipotence, and the dyad.

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Vicissitudes of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Out of the trenches: An Interpretative phenomenological analysis of trainee counsellors’ experiences of courage in the therapeutic domain

Out of the trenches: An Interpretative phenomenological analysis of trainee counsellors’ experiences of courage in the therapeutic domain

Authentic Voices in Supervision

Between private and public: towards a conception of the transitional subject

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