1st Edition

Another Kind of Evidence Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety, and Progressive Symbolization in the Psychoanalytic Process

380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and self-definition, that is,... Read more
CIPS , Series Editor’s Preface , Preamble , How Therapy Lives On , Foreword , The effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: the role of treatment, duration, frequency of sessions, and the therapeutic relationship 1 , Patients’ representations of the therapeutic dialogue: a pathway towards the evaluation of psychotherapy process and outcome , The RTD Coding System and its clinical application: a new approach to studying patients’ representations of the Therapeutic Dialogue , Representations of the therapeutic dialogue and the post-termination phase of psychotherapy , Reminiscing and recollecting , Commentary , Three Pathways Towards The Modification of Annihilation Anxiety , Foreword , The Propositional Method for the study of psychoanalytic concepts , Meet Mohamed and the method implemented , Annihilation Anxiety and its transformation during early transference engagement: sessions 3 and 4 , Termination crisis and a panic attack: sessions 41 and 42 , Transformations in long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy: the case of Ms K 3 , Severely traumatized patients’ attempts at reorganizing their relations to others in psychotherapy: an enunciation analysis , Commentary , A Specimen of Working Through , A very broad concept seen through a very narrow lens , Method and findings: the case of Ms Y: the patient and her analyst within the context of a recorded psychoanalysis , The induction of transference regression during the symbolizing phase: sessions 232 to 243 , The emergence of nodal moments during the desymbolizing phase: sessions 245 to 249 , The enactive phase: sessions 252 to 255 , The cycle and the spiral during the re-symbolizing phase: the erotic transference, the extraordinary countertransference, and the preservation of the analytic process: session 257 , Nodal moments and the essence of Progressive Symbolization , Postscript

Biography

Norbert Freedman