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Peeling the Onion
Author(s) -
Gotthold Jacqueline J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04475.x
Subject(s) - psychoanalytic theory , presentation (obstetrics) , vignette , perspective (graphical) , focus (optics) , process (computing) , psychology , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , case presentation , epistemology , cognitive science , computer science , medicine , social psychology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , radiology , physics , surgery , optics , operating system
How can a psychoanalyst account for and recount the process of understanding the therapeutic endeavor? What happens in those moments, co‐created by patient and analyst, when the consultation room comes “alive” in ways that defy easy or simplistic answers? How does an analyst come to understand psychoanalytic treatment as a bidirectional, dyadic, dynamic, interactively regulated relationship? Understanding the psychoanalytic treatment process from a disciplined, yet spontaneous, nonlinear perspective is the focus of this chapter. The overarching treatment process will be considered through the presentation of vignette of a treatment with a school‐aged child.