The Patient's Impact on the Analyst

ISBN-13: 9780881632118 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 310 str.

Judy L. Kantrowitz

Opis

The question of how psychoanalysts are affected by their patients is of perennial interest. Edward Glover posed the question in an informal survey in 1940, but little came of his efforts. Now, more than half a century later, Judy Kantrowitz rigorously explores this issue on the basis of a unique research project that obtained data from 399 fully trained analysts. These survey responses included 194 reported clinical examples and 26 extended case commentaries on analyst change.
Kantrowitz begins The Patient's Impact on the Analyst by documenting how the process of analysis fosters an interactional process out of which patient and analyst alike experience therapeutic effects. Then, drawing on the clinical examples provided by her survey respondents, she offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which clinically triggered self-reflection represents a continuation of the analyst's own personal understanding and growth. Finally, she incorporates these research findings into theoretical reflections on how analysts obtain and integrate self-knowledge in the course of their ongoing clinical work.
This book is a pioneering effort to understand the therapeutic process from the perspective of its impact on the analyst. It provides an enlarged framework of comprehension for recent discussions of self-analysis, countertransference, interaction, and mutuality in the analytic process. Combining a wealth of experiential insight with thoughtful commentary and synthesis, it will sharpen analysts' awareness of how they work and how they are affected by their work.

Spis treści

Part I: Prologue. The Project. Part II: Ways of Knowing. Forms of Self-Exploration: Different Analysts, Different Modes of Exploration. Triggers for Self-Knowledge: How Analysts Recognize an Aspect of Themselves Requiring Further Self-Reflection. Pathways to Self-Knowledge: Private Reflections, Shared Communications, and Work with Patients. Part III: Changes in the Analyst. Similarity of Affect, Conflict, Defense, or Situation. Admiration for Qualities or Chacteristics of Patients. Patients' Interpretations of the Analyst. Countertransference Response as Stimuli for Self-Reflection. The Therapeutic Process for the Analyst. Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis: Exploration of Its Impact on the Analyst. The Darker Side: The Potential Negative Impact of Patients on Their Analysts. Part IV: Epilogue. Concluding Thoughts.

O autorze

Judy Leopold Kantrowitz, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston University; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.  She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has written extensively about the analyst-patient match and the outcome of psychoanalysis.