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On Touching a Patient
Author(s) -
Rosenberg Viqui
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.tb00780.x
Subject(s) - psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , psychoanalytic theory , psychotherapist , orientation (vector space) , relation (database) , clinical practice , field (mathematics) , psychoanalysis , nursing , medicine , geometry , mathematics , database , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language
This paper explores the conflicting as well as complementary relation between interpretation and touch in psychotherapy. It attempts to make sense of a clinical experience in which the change of orientation and framework undergone by the therapist in the course of a patient's treatment provided an opportunity for the therapeutic relationship to move from a body‐therapy approach to a psychoanalytic one. It suggests that this particular experience may offer opportunities for discussing some problems encountered in the field of clinical practice.