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On Beginning Treatment
Author(s) -
Rycroft Charles
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1995.tb00761.x
Subject(s) - psychology , contrast (vision) , authoritarianism , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , law , politics , computer science , political science , democracy
In ‘On Beginning Treatment’ I compare and contrast the ‘correct’ procedure for beginning an analysis that I was taught in the 1940s with how I begin treatment now in the 1990s. I argue that my present method is less rigid, less authoritarian and more realistic than the ‘classical’ procedure I was taught 50 years ago. I end the paper with some reflections on training analyses and their economic and emotional significance for both training analyst and trainee analysand.