Analysis interminable reconsidered

Article Abstract:

Most psychoanalytic literature refers to the interminable analysis as an inability to resolve the patient's conflicts. A productive and mutually gratifying relationship between the psychoanalyst and patient is in no way unhealthy but rather a recognition that theirs is a relationship. Therefore, interminable analysis in cases where continuing resolutions are discovered rather than an analysis that is at an impasse should not be condemned. The psychoanalyst-patient relationship is often compared to parent-child relationships which do not end when the child matures.

Psychotherapy

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Symmetries and asymmetries in the therapeutic relationship

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Psychotherapist Karen Horney saw the therapeutic relationship as one of a cooperative exchange. During the therapeutic process, themes of transference and countertransference may manifest themselves and result in a change for both participants. The analyst should recognize these intimate feelings as part of the therapeutic relationship, but should adhere to the boundaries of abstinence and neutrality.

Analysis, Countertransference (Psychology), Transference (Psychology)

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A witness breaks his silence: the meaning of a therapist's response to an adolescent's self-destruction

Article Abstract:

An adolescent psychotherapist details his dilemma that involved the role of the therapist when the patient engages in self-destructive behavior. The author discusses when therapists should break their confidentiality agreements in order to help their patients, in this case, a 15-year old girl who practiced self-mutilation.

United States, Care and treatment, Research, Methods, Self-destructive behavior, Self injurious behavior, Self-mutilation, Self mutilation, Adolescent psychotherapy, Mentally ill teenagers

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